The Arc of Protection

The Arc of Protection
Author: T. Alexander Aleinikoff
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1503611426

The international refugee regime is fundamentally broken. Designed in the wake of World War II to provide protection and assistance, the system is unable to address the record numbers of persons displaced by conflict and violence today. States have put up fences and adopted policies to deny, deter, and detain asylum seekers. People recognized as refugees are routinely denied rights guaranteed by international law. The results are dismal for the millions of refugees around the world who are left with slender prospects to rebuild their lives or contribute to host communities. T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Leah Zamore lay bare the underlying global crisis of responsibility. The Arc of Protection adopts a revisionist and critical perspective that examines the original premises of the international refugee regime. Aleinikoff and Zamore identify compromises at the founding of the system that attempted to balance humanitarian ideals and sovereign control of their borders by states. This book offers a way out of the current international morass through refocusing on responsibility-sharing, seeing the humanitarian-development divide in a new light, and putting refugee rights front and center.

Current Issues of UK Asylum Law and Policy

Current Issues of UK Asylum Law and Policy
Author: Frances Nicholson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 611
Release: 2019-01-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429873425

Published in 1998. This title brings together 18 essays by a selection of experts in the area of refugee and asylum law and policy. Each essay examines an issue of contemporary interest to those working in the refugee field in the UK. They have been selected from papers presented at a highly successful conference on Refugee Rights and Realities which was held at the University of Nottingham in November 1996, organized by the Human Rights Law Centre at the University and funded by the Airey Neave Trust. The essays are organised into two sections. The first covers issues of legal process and policy ranging from the development of asylum law and policy in the UK to the country’s obligations under international law. Special emphasis is placed on the most recent developments surrounding the 1996 Asylum and Immigration Act. The second section provides the context for a more detailed examination of the social, health and welfare issues relevant to refugees and asylum seekers. These range from access to health care, housing rights and the education of refugees in London to questions of language and of race relations.

Whatever Happened to Asylum in Britain?

Whatever Happened to Asylum in Britain?
Author: Louise Pirouet
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2001-07-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1782388834

Refugees and asylum-seekers are high up on many people's political agenda. Even so, there is a remarkable lack of information. Who are these asylum-seekers? Aren't they almost all "bogus"? How do western immigration authorities decide whether or not they are genuine? Is the UN convention on Refugees out of date and in need of renegotiation? This book brings insider knowledge to the study of asylum in Britain today. It is based on visits to places where asylum seekers are detained, on working with lawyers representing asylum-seekers and on a close knowledge of many of the refugee organisations. It argues passionately that Britain shall not throw away, through ignorance and misunderstanding, a reputation for providing a place of safety for the persecuted, and the chance of welcoming people who have much to contribute to national life and culture.

The Use and Abuse of Political Asylum in Britain and Germany

The Use and Abuse of Political Asylum in Britain and Germany
Author: Liza Schuster
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1135761833

All European states have the legal right to grant asylum but only Germany is obliged by law to do so. Liza Schuster contributes to the asylum debate primarily in the area of comparative politics in this study of British and German policies on asylum practice.

Material Politics of Citizenship

Material Politics of Citizenship
Author: Nina Amelung
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2021-11-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000476189

From the intersection of citizenship, critical migration studies, and science and technology studies (STS), this book examines, across the various case studies, configurations between technologies, infrastructures and citizenship that may constrain acts of citizenship in migration and border regimes; constitute contestation and participation over citizenship; or enable and shape alternative acts of citizenship in migration and border regimes. Technologies and infrastructures on the border are designed to position migrants in multiple and potentially contradictory forms; migrants crossing the border, in their turn, may choose to challenge and repurpose those technologies and infrastructures to match their interests. By elaborating on the notion of ‘material citizenship politics’, the contributors provide a detailed analysis of socio-material practices on the border that moves beyond portraying migrants as mere victims of border technologies and migration infrastructures and anchors critique on the inside of those practices. The chapters in this volume hope to contribute to setting the research agenda and to stimulate further research along these lines revisiting the (in)visibilities of migrant subjects along technologies and infrastructures. As the current pandemic unfolds, exposing societal vulnerabilities, this book highlights the need to critically reflect on the establishment of existing technologies and infrastructures in order to examine to what extent those affect and shape migrant subjects in particular, but may also be extended and used on wider populations after being tested and normalized on vulnerable subjects. This book will be of interest to a broad readership across the social sciences, including scholars working in Critical Migration and Border Studies, Citizenship Studies, Critical Security Studies, and Science and Technology Studies. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Citizenship Studies.

Asylum Seekers' Policy V Integration Policy

Asylum Seekers' Policy V Integration Policy
Author: Janusz Balicki
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2006
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1412074037

'This is a very detailed case study of 50 Kosovan asylum seeker families living in the East End of London. The living conditions and experiences of these families are discussed in the context of the United Kingdom's policy on asylum seekers. It is a useful study in documenting the problems and dilemmas faced by asylum seekers. While this is a case study of Kosovan asylum seekers in the UK, many of the problems and dilemmas discussed in this book are likely to be relevant to asylum seekers elsewhere. The issue of asylum seekers is a very important one for many European countries as well as Britain because of the large number of asylum applications received by these countries in the last fifteen years, as shown in Chapter Two of this study. Many countries are trying to address the issue of asylum seekers and this case study of Kosovan families in London provides information that will be helpful in this regard' Review - Siew-Ean Khoo, Australian Centre for Population Research

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Author: Oregon Board of Public Building Commissioners
Publisher:
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1903
Genre:
ISBN:

Indiana Bulletin of Charities and Corrections

Indiana Bulletin of Charities and Corrections
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1056
Release: 1917
Genre: Prisons
ISBN:

1897-1936 include Proceedings of the Indiana State conference of social work for 1896-1935; 1924-36 include the Annual report of the Dept. of Public welfare for 1923/24-1933/34.

Asylum Support

Asylum Support
Author: Anneliese Baldaccini
Publisher:
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2005
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Explaining the provisions of the new EU Asylum Reception Directive, this is a guide for lawyers and advisers in the UK.