ABSTRACT
The Israeli case study has allowed us to observe the construction of crimmigration under international protection as a system of governmentality. While this system focused on domestic population-management rather than on expulsion, it was not a diminished model of crimmigration, but one that relied excessively on criminal justice apparatuses. Nevertheless, this reliance created a paradox of exclusion, which limited crimmigration’s ability to prevent asylum-seekers from settling down in Israel and contributed to their construction as partial members of the community. The Israeli case study thus illuminates the limitations of crimmigration from the perspective of the nation-state and its subversive potential from the viewpoint of irregular migrants. The book concludes with a normative critique, arguing that crimmigration distorts the underlying values of criminal law by prioritizing the external end of managing (noncriminal) populations over the traditional aim of retribution.
