Fordham University Press Crimmigrant Nations: Resurgent Nationalism and the Closing of Borders

A timely examination of the increasing efforts to criminalize the status of immigrants, exiles, and refugees Review In this frightening moment of rising authoritarian nationalism - where despotic leaders mobilize fear and resentment by equating migration and crime - it is incumbent upon scholars committed to protecting human rights and facilitating genuine democracy to decipher exactly what's happening and why. In this regard, Robert Koulish and Maartje van der Woude have done their duty: They've assembled a team of top-notch contributors who elucidate the scope, origins, and often-deadly consequences of crimmigration policies and politics in Europe and the United States. This book and its lessons are essential. ---Jamie Longazel, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, author of Undocumented Fears: Immigration and the Politics of Divide and Conquer in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, In this timely volume, Professors Koulish and Van der Woude bring together a diverse array of scholarly voices to eludicate the mechanisms and consequences of national migration management policies reliant on the punitive mechanisms of the criminal law and the militarized force of the security state. The authors collectively reveal the global scope of this policy trend, and the dangers that it holds for human dignity and democratic self-determination. ---Jennifer M. Chacón, UCLA School of Law, About the Author Robert Koulish is a political scientist at the University of Maryland, Director of the MLAW Programs in the BSOS College at UMD, Joel J. Feller Research Professor in the Department of Government and Politics, and Lecturer at Law in the UMD Carey School of Law. He is the author or co-author of I mmigration and American Democracy: Subverting the Rule of Law and Immigration Detention, Risk and Human Rights. Maartje van der Woude is Professor of Law & Society at Leiden Law School in the Netherlands. She is also affiliated with the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo and the Center for the International Comparative Study of Criminology at the University of Montreal. Ana Aliverti is an Associate Professor of Law at the School of Law, University of Warwick. She serves on the editorial boards of Theoretical Criminology and the Howard Journal of Crime and Justice. Leonidas K. Cheliotis is an Associate Professor of Criminology in the Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also Codirector of LSE’s Mannheim Centre for Criminology, as well as an editor and book review editor of the British Journal of Criminology. Lana De Pelecijn is currently a Ph.D. Researcher of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) affiliated with the Ghent University (research group IRCP).