Bureaucracy, law and dystopia in the United Kingdom's asylum system / John R. Campbell.
2017
KD4142 .C36 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
Bureaucracy, law and dystopia in the United Kingdom's asylum system / John R. Campbell.
Imprint
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
Copyright
©2017.
Description
xvii, 201 pages ; 25 cm.
Series
Law and migration.
Formatted Contents Note
An anthropological approach to studying asylum law and practice
The evolution of the British asylum system
The work of the British Home Office and UK border agency
Taking and making refugee claims : the work of immigration case workers, interpreters, and barristers
The Immigration and Asylum Tribunal and the work of immigration judges
the politics of 'permission' and the Court of Appeal
The Kafkaesque experience of seeking asylum in UK
Interest groups, asylum policy, and home office intransigence
Conclusion and postscript.
The evolution of the British asylum system
The work of the British Home Office and UK border agency
Taking and making refugee claims : the work of immigration case workers, interpreters, and barristers
The Immigration and Asylum Tribunal and the work of immigration judges
the politics of 'permission' and the Court of Appeal
The Kafkaesque experience of seeking asylum in UK
Interest groups, asylum policy, and home office intransigence
Conclusion and postscript.
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."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-189) and index.
Location
STA
Call Number
KD4142 .C36 2017
Language
English
ISBN
9781138214958 hardcover
1138214957 hardcover
9781315444802 electronic book
1315444801 electronic book
1138214957 hardcover
9781315444802 electronic book
1315444801 electronic book
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