Crimmigration Under International Protection: Constructing Criminal Law as Governmentality

By exploring crimmigration at its intersection with international refugee law, this book exposes crimmigration as a system focused on the governance of territorially present migrants, which internalizes the impracticability of removal and replaces expulsion with domestic policing.

Rottem Rosenberg-Rubins is an Assistant Professor at the College of Law and Business in Ramat Gan. She additionally teaches at Tel Aviv University and serves as the coordinator of the Israeli public committee for preventing and amending wrongful convictions. Her main area of expertise is criminal law, with the bulk of her research pertaining to the interrelations between criminal law, immigration and citizenship. She combines this interdisciplinary study with the study of wrongful convictions, in an attempt to envision new tools for preventing such convictions ex ante and amending them ex post.