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The Exclusionary Politics of Asylum /

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This critique of the securitization and criminalization of asylum seeking challenges the claim that asylum seekers 'threaten' receiving states. It analyzes recent policy developments in relation to their wider historical, political and European contexts and argues that the UK response effe...

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Main Author: Squire, Vicki (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Series:Migration, minorities, and citizenship.
Subjects:
European Union.
Social Sciences.
Ethnicity Studies.
European Union Politics.
Migration.
Political Sociology.
Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.
Social Policy.
Emigration and immigration.
Ethnicity.
Human rights.
Political sociology.
Social justice.
Social policy.
Social sciences.
Electronic books.
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Summary:This critique of the securitization and criminalization of asylum seeking challenges the claim that asylum seekers 'threaten' receiving states. It analyzes recent policy developments in relation to their wider historical, political and European contexts and argues that the UK response effectively renders asylum seekers as scapegoats.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 221 pages)
ISBN:9780230233614
DOI:10.1057/9780230233614