Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten
ISBN: 978-0-421-76350-0
Verlag: Sweet & Maxwell
Asylum Law and Policy focuses on the construction of the asylum seeker and refugee throughout the decades, and examines the concept of asylum in UK law, how it has evolved, and the law and practice to which it has given rise. Distinct from more general te
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Introduction. Part I - Historical perspectives: Constructing the 'asylum seeker': a historical analysis. UK asylum law 1905-1945 - piecemeal control. The emergence of a national refugee law? Asylum seeker as immigrant 1945-1993. The refugee as subject of international law. Part II - Contemporary perspectives: UK Asylum law in the 1990s and beyond: an overview. Exclusion and deterrence through Home Office policy. The role of the courts in the protection of asylum seekers. European Union policy on asylum seekers: reasonable or reactionary? Conclusion: the transformation of asylum.