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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814043103321

Autore

Webber Frances

Titolo

Borderline justice : the fight for refugee and migrant rights / / Frances Webber ; foreword by Gareth Peirce

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Pluto Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-84964-770-4

1-84964-771-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 246 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

PeirceGareth

Disciplina

362.89912

Soggetti

Immigration enforcement - Great Britain

Immigration enforcement - Government policy - Great Britain

Border security - Great Britain

Border security - Government policy - Great Britain

Political refugees - Legal status, laws, etc - Great Britain

Emigration and immigration law - Great Britain

Great Britain Emigration and immigration Government policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-231) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Arrival : contest at the border -- The war on asylum : preventing entry -- Struggles for fair decision-making -- You're not a refugee! -- Stay : battles for fair treatment -- The erosion of the law of humanity -- Migration management in the market state -- The fight for family life -- Prisoners of immigration control -- Departure : resisting total controls and mass removal -- The growth of the internal border force -- The deportation drive -- Enemies of the state.

Sommario/riassunto

Borderline Justice describes the exclusionary policies, inhumane decisions and obstacles to justice for refugees and migrants in the British legal system.    Frances Webber, a long-standing legal practitioner, reveals how the law has been (mis)applied to migrants, refugees and other 'unpopular minorities'. This book records some of the key legal struggles of the past thirty years which have sought to preserve values of universality in human rights - and the importance of continuing to fight for those values, inside and outside the courtroom.    The themes and analysis cross boundaries of law, politics, sociology,



criminology, refugee studies and terrorism studies, appealing to the radical tradition in all these disciplines.