Journal article
Conceptualizing Semi-Legality in Migration Research
- Abstract:
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What is semi-legality, and why does it offer a viable alternative to the legality-illegality binary divide? Semi-legality, as a heuristic device, is useful to frame the various "in-between" statuses and not resorting to illegality every time ambiguities arise as this casts the net of potential fraud far too wide. It could be viewed as a multidimensional space where migrants' formal relationships with the state interact with their various forms of agency toward the law. As a sensitizing theore...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- LAW and SOCIETY REVIEW
- Volume:
- 47
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 555-587
- Publication date:
- 2013-09-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1540-5893
- ISSN:
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0023-9216
- Source identifiers:
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483899
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- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:483899
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- pubs:483899
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- 2014-09-17
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- 2013
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