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Author Maillet, Pauline

Title Nowhere Countries
Published Boston : BRILL, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (312 pages)
Contents Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Terminology: What Do I Mean by "extra- territoriality"?; 2 Liberal Democracies and Extra-Territorial Exclusion; 3 Extra-Territorial Exclusion as a Non-Entrée Mechanism; 4 The Status of the International Zone at International Airports; 5 Research Scope and Methodology; 6 Chapter Outline; Part 1 The Creation and Expansion of Nowhere Countries through the Law or Lack Thereof
Chapter 1 The Establishment of the International Zone at French Airports as an Abject, Extra-Territorial Space1 Refugee Policies in Council of Europe Member States in the 1980s and 1990s; 2 France in the 1980s: the Rise of Xenophobia and Restrictive Migration Laws in the Midst of Economic Difficulties; 3 Long-Term Confinement in the International Zone in Inhumane Conditions; 4 Detention in the International Zone in a Legal Limbo Premised on Extra-Territoriality; 5 The Coalescence of Activism inside and outside of the International Zone
6 Legal Activism: the Use of the "Legal Fiction" Argument to Challenge the Extra-Territoriality Thesis7 Factors that Contributed to the Establishment of the International Zone as an Abject Space; Chapter 2 The Birth of French Waiting Zones or the Manufacturing of an Illiberal Law through Regular Democratic Mechanisms; 1 Context of the Marchand Amendment; 2 The Marchand Amendment: a Less Protective Provision Premised on Extra-Territoriality; 3 Persisting Ambiguity Regarding the Status of the Transit Zone
4 The Government's Justification for the Amendment: Emphasis on Progress, Security and the Upcoming Litigation's Danger5 The Role of the Constitutional Council in the Manufacturing of an Illiberal Law; 6 The Law on the Waiting Zone from 1992 to 2016: Successive Extensions of the Definition of the Waiting Zone Following Litigation "Crises"; Chapter 3 Non-Citizens in French Airports' Waiting Zones Today: the Endurance of Exclusion through Extra-Territoriality; 1 The Case of Amuur v. France (1996): Airports' International Zones Are not Extra-Territorial Spaces
2 When History Repeats Itself: Evidence of the Endurance of the Initial Phase of Extra-Territoriality3 The Waiting Zone: the Heir of the International Zone; Chapter 4 The French Law on the Waiting Zone: the Reinvention of Exclusion through Extra-Territoriality; 1 The Law on the Waiting Zone: an Exclusionary Framework Forced Upon the Most Vulnerable; 1.1 Asylum Seekers; 1.2 Accompanied Children in the Waiting Zones; 1.3 Unaccompanied Children in the Waiting Zones; 2 Ad Hoc Waiting Zones or the Possibility for Border Authorities to Create Zones of Lesser Rights Anywhere
Notes 3 The Exportation of the Law on the Waiting Zone to Morocco
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ISBN 9789004383500
9004383506