Legal Origins of the European Border Regime: Internalizing the Chinese Exclusion Act
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12115-025-01115-7" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12115-025-01115-7</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12115-025-01115-7" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12115-025-01115-7</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Legal Origins of the European Border Regime: Internalizing the Chinese Exclusion Act
Original language description
The current European border regime is characterized by racialized exclusion. I argue that this is the result of a process ofinternalization of norms whose legal origins can be traced back to the US exclusion era best known for the 1882 ChineseExclusion Act. After a short introduction, I proceed in four steps. First, I describe the origin of racially motivated exclusionlaws targeting Chinese and other Asian immigrants, particularly in the USA. Second, I discuss their legal perpetuation throughthe concomitant development of the plenary power doctrine in American and British case law. Third, I examine the transferof the exclusion doctrine per se into contemporary international and European law and its alleged cleansing of racist bias.Fourth, I describe how these historical developments inform current legal and political decisions shaping the European borderregime. The aim is to expose more clearly the contradictions between anti-discriminatory norms, such as the ones enshrinedin the European Convention on Human Rights, and openly discriminatory legal and political practices regulating unwantedimmigration. Arguably, these practices result from an internalization of racialized exclusion since the Chinese exclusion era.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50902 - Social sciences, interdisciplinary
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Society
ISSN
0147-2011
e-ISSN
1936-4725
Volume of the periodical
62
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
438-449
UT code for WoS article
001527700200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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