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Entanglements of Life with the Law : Precarity and Justice in London's Magistrates Courts (2020)
Book
Campbell, J. (2020). Entanglements of Life with the Law : Precarity and Justice in London's Magistrates Courts. Cambridge Scholars Publishing

This book examines the quality and nature of justice dispensed in London’s magistrates’ courts which are the lowest level of the United Kingdom’s Criminal Justice System. In 2017 approximately two hundred thirty thousand individuals were prosecuted f... Read More about Entanglements of Life with the Law : Precarity and Justice in London's Magistrates Courts.

Conflicting Perspectives on the ‘Migrant Crisis’ in the Horn of Africa (2019)
Book Chapter
Campbell, J. (2019). Conflicting Perspectives on the ‘Migrant Crisis’ in the Horn of Africa. In C. Menjivar, M. Ruis, & I. Ness (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of migration crises. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190856908.013.35

In sharp contrast to the sense of a “migrant crisis” which prevails in Europe, nation states in the Horn of Africa understand migration, including state-induced population displacement, as unexceptional. The chapter addresses this apparent paradox by... Read More about Conflicting Perspectives on the ‘Migrant Crisis’ in the Horn of Africa.

Language analysis in the United Kingdom's refugee status determination system: seeing through policy claims about ‘expert knowledge’ (2012)
Journal Article
Campbell, J. (2013). Language analysis in the United Kingdom's refugee status determination system: seeing through policy claims about ‘expert knowledge’. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 36(4), 670-690. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2011.634506

This paper examines claims made about the role of 'expert knowledge' in analysing the language of individuals seeking asylum in the UK. I treat policy as a type of power and seek to understand how this policy uses the language of science to further t... Read More about Language analysis in the United Kingdom's refugee status determination system: seeing through policy claims about ‘expert knowledge’.