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Victim or Perpetrator? The Criminalised Migrant and the Idea of ‘Harm’ in the Labour Market Context

  • This chapter provides powerful arguments against the criminalization of irregular migration. It does so by testing the extensive criminalization of irregular migrants against standard liberal principles of criminalization. The chapter argues that it is very difficult to identify any direct wrongs or harms to others that arise in virtue of ‘irregular’ migration. Furthermore, a malum prohibitum offence cannot be justified. Against these weak arguments in favour of criminalization, this chapter identifies compelling reasons against criminalization. Criminalization leads to further criminalization, which ultimately undermines both migrants’ and local workers’ fundamental rights. It also blocks discussion of one particularly worker-protective regulatory response to irregular migration, namely regularization. In truth, the criminalization of migrants represents a context where there has been a decisive rupture with liberal principles of criminalization.

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Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Author(s):Cathryn Costello
Editor(s):Alan Blogg, Jennifer Collins, Mark Freedland, Jennifer Herring
Parent Title (English):Criminality at Work
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Place of Publisher:Oxford
Publication year:2020
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
First Page:309
Last Page:326
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198836995.003.0016
ISBN:9780198836995
Release Date:2021/03/11
Hertie School Research:Centre for Fundamental Rights
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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