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

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.
Subject:	Asylum, Right of -- England. Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England. Asylum, Right of. Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. England.
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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Call Number:	XXKD4142 .C36 2017
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