International Criminal Law and Border Control: The Expressive Role of the Deportation and Extradition of Rwandan Citizens
A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm
International criminal law and international refugee law have widely been considered to be mutually re-enforcing. However, this assumed compatibility fails to take sufficient account of how responses to allegations of involvement in an international crime are often embedded within domestic immigration laws and serve multiple expressive functions. To examine these domestic entanglements, this paper draws on an independently generated dataset of 120 cases concerning 100 Rwandan nationals decided in 20 countries around the world. This dataset enables an analysis of the role that international criminal law is playing in their extradition, deportation or domestic prosecution. It argues that the differences in legal reasoning across these cases are underpinned by the different types of expressive work done by these legal proceeding. These cases communicate not only an on-going commitment to recognising the universal wrong of genocide, but also more ambiguous messaging about what constitutes a fair trial in Rwanda, who constitutes a 'criminal migrant' and, to a Rwandan audience, the transnational penal reach of the Rwandan state.
Date: 8 May 2018, 13:00 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2018)
St Cross Building
St Cross Road OX1 3UR
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Details: Law Faculty - Seminar Room L
Speaker: Dr Nicola Palmer (King's College London)
Organising department: Centre for Criminology
Organiser: Oxford Transitional Justice Research (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: ivo.gruev@law.ox.ac.uk
Host: Ivo Gruev (University of Oxford )
Part of: Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
Topics: Law
Booking url: https://www.facebook.com/events/205726236696366/
Audience: Public
Editor: Celine Leong