Bureaucracy, Law and Dystopia in the United Kingdom's Asylum System Contributor(s): Campbell, John R. (Author) |
|
ISBN: 1138214957 ISBN-13: 9781138214958 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Law | Emigration & Immigration - Law | Constitutional - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
Dewey: 342.420 |
LCCN: 2016027206 |
Series: Law and Migration |
Physical Information: 220 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. Providing an in-depth ethnographic study of a national asylum system and of immigration law and practice, the book will be an invaluable resource for academics, researchers and policy-makers in the UK and beyond working in this highly topical area. |