Political Science Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Abstract
This paper reexamines the engagement of U.S. and French courts with immigration politics, aiming to provide a fuller accounting of how law and immigration politics shape one another. Jurisprudential principles are placed in national and historical context, elucidating the role of rights-oriented legal networks in formulating these arguments during the 1970s and early 1980s. The analysis traces how these judicial constructions of immigrants subsequently contributed to catalyzing a transformation of immigration politics in both countries. Immigrant rights jurisprudence is shown to be produced by, as well as productive of, broader political values, agendas, and identities.
Publisher's Statement
This is the accepted version of the following article: “Juridical Framings of Immigrants in the United States and France: Courts, Social Movements, and Symbolic Politics,” International Migration Review, Vol. 46 (2012), pp. 414-455, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1747-7379.2012.00892.x/abstract.
Repository Citation
Kawar, Leila, "Juridical Framings of Immigrants in the United States and France: Courts, Social Movements, and Symbolic Politics" (2012). Political Science Faculty Publications. 6.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/poli_sci_pub/6
Publication Date
Summer 2012
Publication Title
International Migration Review
Publisher
Wiley
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-7379.2012.00892.x
Start Page No.
414
End Page No.
455