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Asian Journal of Criminology https://doi.org/10.1007/s11417-023-09406-w BOOK RE VIE W Review of Tian Ma, Contesting Crimmigration in Post‑hukou China Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2022. ISBN:9783031076732, 218 pages, $129 (hardcover) Cristina Fernández‑Bessa Received: 27 April 2023 / Accepted: 14 May 2023 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2023 Academic studies on the criminalization of mobility and immigration enforcement have gained increasing momentum in criminology in the last two decades. Specifically, the so-called crimmigration thesis has greatly re-energized academic conversations in this field. This thesis, which was elaborated by Juliet Stumpf to explore a range of legal reforms passed in the USA in the 1990s, has had global academic impact. It claims that immigration and criminal law have been increasingly merged into a new crimmigration order, resulting in the penalization of immigration law breaches and the enforcement of immigration law measures in dealing with noncitizen offenders. The book Contesting Crimmigration in Post-hukou China explores if and how the concept of crimmigration can be applied within the Chinese context, in the framework of globalization processes (160). Tian Ma’s research specifically identifies “crimmigrants” in China and gives relevance to situated analyses and site-specific developments in addressing crimmigration queries. In China, the criminalized migrants are
Asian Journal of Criminology – Springer Journals
Published: Jun 5, 2023
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