AbstractIntroducing our Special Issue on marginalisation, this paper considers some of the challenges that this topic poses for legal scholars. The paper identifies that these challenges arise principally from the ambivalence of ‘marginalisation’ itself: at once an idea so broad that it arguably underpins the bulk of legal research (and socio-legal research in particular), but at the same time an idea that in practice too often quickly gives way to various other neighbouring ones: disadvantage, discrimination, disempowerment, exclusion, inequality, silencing, stigmatisation, victimisation and so on. This paper considers this ambivalence and traces etymological roots (and routes) by which we understand the margin, the marginalised and marginalisation.

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简介：法律、政策和社会中的边缘化

摘要介绍我们关于边缘化的特刊，本文考虑了该主题对法律学者提出的一些挑战。该论文指出，这些挑战主要来自“边缘化”本身的矛盾心理：一个概念如此广泛以至于它可以说是大部分法律研究（尤其是社会法律研究）的基础，但同时一个概念是在实践中，往往很快就让位于其他各种相邻的问题：劣势、歧视、剥夺权力、排斥、不平等、沉默、污名化、受害等等。本文考虑了这种矛盾心理，并追溯了我们理解边缘、边缘化和边缘化的词源（和路径）。