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(2009) Essays on Levinas and law, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
The lesser violence than murder and the face-to-face
"illegal" immigrants stand over American law
pp. 162-179
[t]he cruel current of maternal desperation and the promise of the American dollar [that] pulled her from her home in Oaxaca and from her two young boys … She could not bear the thought of turning back empty-handed, because her youngest child needs expensive medical treatment. Yet she fell during the night and hurt her knee, and then found herself alone, immobile, lost, and without food or water. To abandon her would surely have meant inevitable death.
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(2009)., The lesser violence than murder and the face-to-face: "illegal" immigrants stand over American law, in D. Manderson (ed.), Essays on Levinas and law, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 162-179.
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