Legal Origins of the European Border Regime: Internalizing the Chinese Exclusion Act

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Legal Origins of the European Border Regime: Internalizing the Chinese Exclusion Act

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Legal Origins of the European Border Regime: Internalizing the Chinese Exclusion Act

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50902 - Social sciences, interdisciplinary

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Society

ISSN

0147-2011

e-ISSN

1936-4725

Svazek periodika

62

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

12

Strana od-do

438-449

Kód UT WoS článku

001527700200001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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