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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 5
Crossing Unauthorized Love Pursuing Citizenship in
How We Label and React Mixed-Citizenship Couples the Enforcement Era
to People on the Move Negotiating Intimacy, I
Ming Hsu Chen
Rebecca Hamlin mmigration, and the State
Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement
Today, the concept of “the refugee” Jane López Era examines the everyday perspec-
as distinct from other migrants For mixed-citizenship couples, tives of immigrants trying to integrate
looms large. Immigration laws have getting married is the easy part. into American society when immigra-
developed to reinforce a dichotomy The US Supreme Court has con- tion policy is focused on enforcement
between those viewed as voluntary, firmed the universal civil right to and exclusion. The law says that
often economically motivated, marry, guaranteeing every couple’s everyone who is not a citizen is an
migrants who can be legitimately ability to wed. But the Supreme alien, but Ming Hsu Chen argues that
excluded by potential host states, Court has denied that this right to the citizen/alien binary should be
and those viewed as forced, often marriage includes married couples’ reframed as a spectrum of citizenship,
politically motivated, refugees who right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of emphasizing continuities between the
should be let in. In Crossing, Rebecca happiness on US soil, creating a chal- otherwise distinct experiences of
Hamlin argues against advocacy lenge for mixed-citizenship couples membership and belonging for
positions that cling to this distinc- whose individual-level rights do not immigrants seeking citizenship. Bring-
tion. Drawing on cases of various
translate to family-level protections. ing together theories of citizenship
“border crises” across Europe,
In Unauthorized Love, Jane López with empirical data on integration
North America, South America, and
offers a comprehensive, critical look and analysis of contemporary policy,
the Middle East, Hamlin outlines
at US family reunification law and its Chen argues that formal citizenship
major inconsistencies and faulty
consequences as experienced by 56 matters more than ever during times
assumptions on which the binary
relies. The migrant/refugee binary mixed-citizenship American couples. of enforcement and that constructing
is not just an innocuous shorthand. These couples’ stories—of integration pathways to citizenship that enhance
In truth, the binary is a dangerous and alienation, of opportunity and both formal and substantive equality
legal fiction, politically constructed inequality, of hope and despair— of immigrants.
with the ultimate goal of making make tangible the consequences of “As much critique as corrective vision,
harsh border control measures more current US immigration laws that Ming Chen’s powerful book brings us
ethically palatable to the public. tend to favor Whiteness, wealth, revelatory conversations with immi-
and heteronormativity, as well as grants seeking to become citizens.”
“This is essential reading for anyone the individual rather than the family —Ian F. Haney López,
eager for a pathbreaking and surely University of California, Berkeley
influential perspective on migration unit, in awarding membership and
in the twenty-first century.” official belonging. 232 pages, August 2020
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University of Chicago
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10 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
A History of False Hope Imagining the International The Legacy of Pluralism
Investigative Commissions Crime, Justice, and the Promise The Continental Jurisprudence
in Palestine of Community of Santi Romano, Carl Schmitt,
Lori Allen Nesam McMillan and Costantino Mortati
This book offers a provocative Imagining the International inter- Mariano Croce and
retelling of Palestinian political his- rogates mainstream understandings of Marco Goldoni
tory through an examination of the international crime and international How should the state face the
international commissions that have justice to tease out their ethical limits challenge of radical pluralism?
investigated political violence and and possibilities. Through an analysis How can constitutional orders be
human rights violations. Drawing of archival and contemporary data, the changed when they prove unable
on debates in the press, previously book provides a sustained picture of to regulate society? Santi Romano,
unexamined UN reports, historical how ideas about international crime Carl Schmitt, and Costantino
archives, and ethnographic and justice are given content and the Mortati, the leading figures of
research, Allen explores six key global interrelations they enable and Continental legal institutionalism,
investigative commissions over the foreclose. Nesam McMillan argues that provided three responses that
last century. She highlights how dominant approaches to conceptual- deserve our full attention
Palestinians’ persistent demands for izing distinctly international crime and today. Mariano Croce and Marco
independence have been routinely international justice are problematic Goldoni introduce and analyze
translated into the numb language because they disconnect these phe- these three towering figures for
of reports and resolutions. These nomena from the everyday, fostering a modern audience. The Legacy
commissions, Allen argues, operat- distance between those who have of Pluralism explores the conver-
ing as technologies of liberal global experienced international crime and gences and divergences of these
governance, yield no justice—only those who have not. This book power- important jurists to take stock of
the oppressive status quo. A History fully underscores the importance of their ground-breaking analyses of
of False Hope issues a biting critique the ideas of international crime the origin of the legal order and to
of the captivating allure and cold and justice and their significant show how they can help us cope
impotence of international law. limits, cautioning against their with the current crisis of national
“Allen has produced a fascinating, continued valorization. constitutional systems.
engaging, and innovative scholarly “This book is a compelling call for “An indispensable book.”
assessment of how international inclusiveness and a powerful —John P. McCormick,
commissions have failed to exhortation for globality to University of Chicago
deliver political results to the transcend post-coloniality.” JURISTS: PROFILES IN
Palestinian people.” —Mark A. Drumbl, LEGAL THEORY
—Richard Falk Washington and Lee University 264 pages, August 2020
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