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Corporate Borders: A Provocation

E Tendayi Achiume

Current Legal Problems2025https://doi.org/10.1093/clp/cuaf013article
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Abstract

Scholarship and even political and policy discourse regarding migration and borders tend to focus on the migration of natural persons, and (inter)national borders as the domain of the nation-state, conceived of as an expression of the latter’s sovereignty. In liberal theory, nation-state borders are critical legal and political infrastructure of collective self-determination, bulwarks for democratic self-rule. This Article is a provocation to consider migration, borders, and sovereignty from a different vantage—one that centers the migration of transnational commercial corporations, and their capacity to constitute, govern and wield borders and migration to advance the will of their constituencies . I focus in particular on corporations as migrants that are uniquely threatening to democratic self-rule generally, and especially to the self-determination of (post)colonial nation-states.

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@article{e2025,
  title        = {{Corporate Borders: A Provocation}},
  author       = {E Tendayi Achiume},
  journal      = {Current Legal Problems},
  year         = {2025},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/clp/cuaf013},
}

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