ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Audrey Macklin

Audrey Macklin is Director of the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, Professor of Law and Rebecca Cook Chair in Human Rights at the University of Toronto, Canada. She researched and teaches in the fields of migration, citizenship, administrative and human rights law.

POSTS BY Audrey Macklin

24 November 2021

Audrey Macklin

The Long Shadow of 9/11

At the broadest level, 9/11 exacerbated the chronic precarity of non-citizens’ status as legal subjects governed under the rule of law. In principle, the rule of law is indifferent to citizenship: after all, the legal subject is constituted through subjection to law, not to the state as such. And yet, the rule of law has always been insipid in the sphere of migration, and securitization diluted it even further. This is true across all jurisdictions, including those bound by human rights entrenched in constitutional texts. Continue reading >>