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Conceptualising the Criminalisation of Migration

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The criminalisation of migration for the purposes of this book is understood as a three-fold process whereby migration management takes place via the adoption of substantive criminal law, via recourse to traditional law enforcement mechanisms includng surveillance and detention and via the deployment of mechanisms of prevention and pre-emption.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Legomsky (2007).

  2. 2.

    Stumpf (2006).

  3. 3.

    Aliverti (2013).

  4. 4.

    Zedner (2013).

  5. 5.

    Issue paper prepared by Guild (2009).

  6. 6.

    Mitsilegas (2012a).

  7. 7.

    Dauvergne (2008).

  8. 8.

    See inter alia Chacón (2007), Mitsilegas (2007), and for a comparative analysis, Mitsilegas (2012b).

  9. 9.

    On the international relations/political sociology nexus see the work of Bigo (1996) on the securitisation of migration.

  10. 10.

    See a number of contributions in Aas and Bosworth, call out.

  11. 11.

    See Mitsilegas, call out. (references in note 8).

  12. 12.

    See Joao Guia (2015).

  13. 13.

    See Ashworth and Zedner (2014).

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Mitsilegas, V. (2015). Conceptualising the Criminalisation of Migration. In: The Criminalisation of Migration in Europe. SpringerBriefs in Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12658-6_1

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