Bureaucracy, law and dystopia in the United Kingdom's asylum system /

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Author / Creator:Campbell, John (John R.), author.
Imprint:Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
©2017
Description:xvii, 201 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Law and migration
Law and migration.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11016098
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ISBN:9781138214958
1138214957
9781315444802
1315444801
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"The central concern of this book is to find answers to fundamental questions about the British asylum system and how it operates. Based on ethnographic research over a two-year period, the work follows and analyses numerous asylum appeals through the British courts. It draws on myriad interviews with individuals and a thorough examination of many state and non-state organizations to understand how the system works. While the organization of the book reflects the formal asylum process, a focus on specific legal appeals reveals the 'political' factors at play as different institutions and actors seek to influence judicial decision-making and overturn/uphold official asylum policy. The final chapter draws on the author's ethnographic findings of the UK's 'asylum field' to re-examine research on the Refugee Determination System in the US, Canada and Australia which has narrowly focused on judicial decision-making. It argues that analysis of Refugee Determination Systems must be situated and studied as part of a wider, political, semi-autonomous 'asylum field' which needs to be better understood."--

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