Migration Law’s Place in Sovereign Times

DOI:  https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/sociojuridicos/a.15742

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Published: Jan 15, 2026
Issue: Vol. 28 No. 1 (2026): Decoloniality and Transformative Constitutionalism
Section Dossier Decolonialidad y Constitucionalismo Transformador


Keywords: migration law State sovereignty Decolonial praxis Indigenous legal thought Structural exclusion

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  Anastasia Tataryn
St. Jeromes University

Abstract

This conceptual article interrogates the role of migration law within the Euro-modern legal order, exposing its entrenchment in state sovereignty. Drawing on Indigenous legal thought, poststructuralism, and post-anarchist theory, it challenges the naturalization of borders, citizenship, and territorial sovereignty, proposing alternative place-based and relational legalities. The analysis critiques the epistemological dominance of Euro-modern law in framing irregular migration and migrant labor, highlighting how temporal and spatial controls reproduce exclusion. Through the concepts of relational accountability (from Indigenous legal thought), ecotechnics (from post-structuralism), and collective sight (from post-anarchism), this article argues for a decolonial praxis grounded in place-based, relational, and lived legality, rather than in a state-centric legal form. This work contributes to critical legal scholarship by theorizing migration law beyond sovereignty, towards an ontology of law rooted in place, community, and lived experience.

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Tataryn, A. (2026). Migration Law’s Place in Sovereign Times. Estudios Socio-Jurídicos, 28(1), 1–36. https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/sociojuridicos/a.15742
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