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.
Copyright Statement
Post-print
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