ABSTRACT

The ecotechnics acting in labour migration have exposed a technical seizure that is far less legalistic and more capital driven. The ecotechnics of labour and migration law circulate the power that traps, confines and conforms life as material experience and the sense of the material experience that escapes signification, but nevertheless informs law. Law is failing migration and labour in its orchestration of, and its complicity in, and its complicity in the technological circulation of market forces embedded in the nation-state that benefit from maintaining ‘juridical twilight zones’. Law plays a key role in constituting and legitimising communities, communities that have been in the modern era been identified through the framework of the nation. Law as ecotechnics can be understood as tracing the movement generated through the coming together that happens in the originary sociality. Labour migration law illuminates a tension between juridical and existential law.