This essay provides an overview of Critical Legal Rhetoric as an approach to study the law that examines the practical force of language in legal contexts. Narrowing in on immigration and refugee law, the chapter examines the gendered nature of refugee law’s emergence how the conceptualization of gender has impacted women’s ability to seek refugee status. The chapter then considers the way dominant discourses attach to the subjectivities and bodies of non-citizen subjects, enabling or constricting the ability to gain relief. In total, the essay offers as a practical, realist framework for understanding how non-citizen subjects have been discursively constituted through legal struggles, and also to understand the precarities that immigrants and refugees face as they navigate the legal structures of international and national law.
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Front Matter
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PART I: VARIETIES OF LEGAL REALISM - THEN AND NOW
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PART II: LEGAL REALIST SCHOLARSHIP MEETS CURRENT DILEMMAS
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Section A: Policing
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Section B: Immigration
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Section C: Legal education
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Section D: International law and global standards
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Section E: Accessing justice through law
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PART III: DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
