Much scholarship underscores the exclusionary nature of crimmigration (the policy of criminalising infringements of immigration rules and imposing adverse immigration consequences as sanctions for criminal conduct), viewing it as a system of social marginalisation designed to prevent integration. This article, conversely, demonstrates crimmigration’s potential to contribute to the partial and symbolic acceptance of migrants. The article argues that crimmigration is characterised by a ‘paradox of exclusion’—a contradictory attempt to exclude undesirable migrants via the field of criminal law, which is designed primarily for citizens. Consequently, crimmigration regimes extend to migrants certain rights associated with membership and provide irregular migrants with various opportunities to gain admittance into the community. Two main processes contribute to this dynamic: the extension of principles typical of ‘citizen criminal law’ to migrants and the equation of law abidance with ‘good citizenship’, which informally confirms the right of certain migrants to remain in the country or their suitability for membership. The article discusses crimmigration’s consequent contribution to the process of civic stratification.

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犯罪与“排斥悖论”

许多学者强调了犯罪移民的排他性（将违反移民规则的行为定为犯罪并将不利的移民后果作为对犯罪行为的制裁的政策），将其视为旨在防止融合的社会边缘化系统。相反，这篇文章展示了犯罪移民对移民的部分和象征性接受的潜力。文章认为，犯罪移民的特点是“排斥悖论”——一种通过刑法领域排斥不受欢迎的移民的矛盾尝试，刑法主要是为公民设计的。因此，移民制度将某些与成员资格相关的权利延伸到移民，并为非正规移民提供各种机会进入社区。有两个主要过程促成了这种动态：将“公民刑法”的典型原则扩展到移民，以及将守法与“良好公民身份”相提并论，这非正式地确认了某些移民留在该国的权利或他们是否适合移民。会员资格。这篇文章讨论了犯罪移民对公民分层过程的后续贡献。