In this seminar, Professor Hacker offers a brief overview of her latest book, Legalized Families in the Era of Bordered Globalization, followed by a more in-depth focus on what she terms as the ‘right to familial citizenship’ (i.e., the right of family members to be citizens of the same nation state).
 
Her book explores the role of the law in shaping the millions of families that are affected simultaneously by the opportunities and challenges created by globalization, and the ongoing resilience of national borders. It demonstrates how the institution of the family can no longer be understood detached from globalization, and how, as such, it must escape the socio-legal methodological nationalism trap and be studied, instead, in the context of the international, regional, multinational, and parochial laws that govern it. Likewise, it shows how globalization cannot be fully understood without an in-depth investigation of the myriad ways in which families try to manoeuvre around the law as they cross national borders and other social boundaries such as those based on gender, race, and economic status. Specifically, in this presentation, she will discuss new strategies employed by the Global North to minimize ‘the right to familial citizenship’, and the familial cost of these strategies to migrant workers and to their left behind children.
 
Professor Hacker’s bio: https://en-law.tau.ac.il/profile/dafna