The Practice of Immigration and Nationality Law: Setting Boundaries of Specialization at the Margins
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Specialization, Legal Profession, ImmigrationAbstract
Drawing on literature on professions and specialization, both within the legal profession and outside of it – in disciplines such as medicine, teaching, and scientific research – this paper looks at immigration and nationality law practice as a specialist area established through boundary setting in England. It analyses the boundaries placed on knowledge and authorised practice of law by examining how these lead to new specializations. Situated at the margins of legal practice, immigration law represents a low status area of practice which is not just influenced by market forces. Driven by external factors and internal motivations, the process of specialization operates to create niche areas of knowledge and expertise within immigration law. We find that the process of specialization can have contradictory effects: both consolidating professional values as well as leading potentially to de-professionalization.Aprovechando la literatura existente sobre profesiones y especialización tanto en la profesión jurídica como fuera de ella, este artículo aborda la práctica jurídica sobre inmigración y nacionalidad como un área de especialización que se ha establecido sobre la fijación de fronteras en Inglaterra. Analiza los límites fijados al conocimiento y la práctica jurídica autorizada a través de un análisis de cómo esas fronteras provocaron el surgimiento de especializaciones nuevas. En el margen de la práctica jurídica, el derecho migratorio representa un área de bajo nivel en la práctica, área que no se ve influida por las fuerzas del mercado. El proceso de especialización está dirigido por factores externos y motivaciones internas, y opera para crear nichos de conocimiento y especialización dentro del derecho migratorio. Hemos descubierto que el proceso de especialización puede tener efectos contradictorios, puesto que puede consolidar valores profesionales a la vez que, potencialmente, conducir a la desprofesionalización.
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