Law, Migration, and Human Mobility

Mobile Law

Magdalena Kmak (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)

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Routledge
14 September 2023

Migration, immigration & emigration; Law & society; Immigration law; Human geography

This book analyses the multifaceted ways law operates in the context of human mobility, as well as the ways in which human mobility affects law.

Migration law is conventionally understood as a tool to regulate human movement across borders, and to define the rights and limits related to this movement. But drawing upon the emergence and development of the discipline of mobility studies, this book pushes the idea of migration law towards a more general concept of mobility that encompass the various processes, effects, and consequences of movement in a globalized world. In this respect, the book pursues a shift in perspective on how law is understood. Drawing on the concepts of ‘kinology’ and ‘kinopolitics’ developed by Thomas Nail as well as ‘mobility justice’ developed by Mimi Sheller, the book considers movement and motion as a constructive force behind political and social systems; and hence stability that needs to be explained and justified. Tracing the processes through which static forms, such as state, citizenship, or border, are constructed and how they partake in production of differential mobility, the book challenges the conventional understanding of migration law. More specifically, and in revealing its contingent and unstable nature, the book reveals how human mobility is itself constitutive of law.

This interdisciplinary book will appeal to those working in the areas of migration and refugee law, citizenship studies, mobility studies, legal theory, and sociolegal studies.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. Funded by University of Helsinki and Åbo Akademi University.

By: Magdalena Kmak (Åbo Akademi University Finland)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032185248
ISBN 10: 1032185244
Pages: 194
Publication Date: 14 September 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. Mobility as a quality of law 2. Mobility as a right 3. Mobility as a violation of law 4. Mobility as a resistance to law 5. Mobility as a method of legal knowledge production Conclusions

Magdalena Kmak is Professor of Public International Law, with a specialization in Migration and Minority Research, at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.