New volume on migration, asylum and borders co-edited by Ayelet Shachar

Responding to ever-increasing pressures of migration, states, supranational, and subnational actors deploy complex moves and maneuvers to reconfigure borders, rights, and territory, giving rise to a changing legal cartography of international relations and international law. R. F. Harney Professor and Director of the Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies Program at the Munk School Ayelet Shachar and internationally recognized political philosopher Seyla Benhabib of Columbia Law School, have edited an important new volume, the contributions of which will reconfigure our understandings of rights, territoriality, and jurisdiction at the empirical and normative levels and examine the implications for the future of democratic governance within and across borders.

Written by a diverse and accomplished group of scholars, and published by Cambridge University Press, the chapters in this volume employ legal, historical, philosophical, critical, discursive, and postcolonial perspectives to explore how the territoriality of the modern states – ostensibly, the most stable and unquestionable element undergirding the current international system – has been rewritten and dramatically reimagined. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

"This remarkable volume," according to Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law, "examining the many modes of closing doors to the movement of people, opens wide windows for readers to understand these anxious times, as migrants bear the weight of the sense of dislocation that is experienced within and beyond the nation state."

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