Law and the stranger [electronic resource] / edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey.

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TextSeries: Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thoughtPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Law, c2010.Description: 1 online resource (247 p.)ISBN:

9780804775151

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Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:

342.083 23

LOC classification:

K3274 .L39 2010

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Stanford scholarship online

Summary: Law calls communities into being and constitutes the 'we' it governs. This act of defining produces an outside as well as an inside, a border whose crossing is guarded, maintaining the identity, coherence, and integrity of the space and people within. Those wishing to enter must negotiate a complex terrain of defensive mechanisms, expectations, assumptions, and legal proscriptions. Essentially, law enforces the boundary between inside and outside in both physical and epistemological ways. This book explores the ways law identifies and responds to strangers within and across borders.

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Law calls communities into being and constitutes the 'we' it governs. This act of defining produces an outside as well as an inside, a border whose crossing is guarded, maintaining the identity, coherence, and integrity of the space and people within. Those wishing to enter must negotiate a complex terrain of defensive mechanisms, expectations, assumptions, and legal proscriptions. Essentially, law enforces the boundary between inside and outside in both physical and epistemological ways. This book explores the ways law identifies and responds to strangers within and across borders.

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Law and the stranger [electronic resource] / edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey.