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Behrman, Simon (2018) Law and asylum : space, subject, resistance. Law and Migration . Routledge. ISBN 9781138304178
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203730348
Abstract
In contrast to the claim that refugee law has been a key in guaranteeing a space of protection for refugees, this book argues that law has been instrumental in eliminating spaces of protection, not just from one’s persecutors but also from the grasp of sovereign power. By uncovering certain fundamental aspects of asylum as practised in the past and in present day social movements, namely its concern with defining space rather than people and its role as a space of resistance or otherness to sovereign law, this book demonstrates that asylum has historically been antagonistic to law and vice versa. In contrast, twentieth-century refugee law was constructed precisely to ensure the effective management and control over the movements of forced migrants. To illustrate the complex ways in which these two paradigms – asylum and refugee law – interact with one another, this book examines their historical development and concludes with in-depth studies of the Sanctuary Movement in the United States and the Sans-Papiers of France.
Item Type: | Book | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||
Series Name: | Law and Migration | ||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
ISBN: | 9781138304178 | ||||||
Book Title: | Law and Asylum | ||||||
Official Date: | 19 June 2018 | ||||||
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DOI: | 10.4324/9780203730348 | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
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