Law and Asylum

Law and Asylum
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 476
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781351397469
ISBN-13 : 135139746X
Rating : 4/5 (46X Downloads)

Book Synopsis Law and Asylum by : Simon Behrman

Download or read book Law and Asylum written by Simon Behrman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. The book will appeal to researchers and students of refugee law and refugee studies; legal and political philosophy; ancient, medieval and modern legal history; and sociology of political movements.


Law and Asylum Related Books

Law and Asylum
Language: en
Pages: 476
Authors: Simon Behrman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-18 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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
Romulus' Asylum
Language: en
Pages: 456
Authors: Emma Dench
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-06-16 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Modern treatments of Rome have projected in highly emotive terms the perceived problems, or the aspirations, of the present: 'race-mixture' has been blamed for
Asylum and Sanctuary in History and Law
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: James Biser Whisker
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-05-01 - Publisher: Universal-Publishers

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book explores the history and evolution of sanctuary and asylum as a legal concept including treaties, laws, and court rulings by major geographic areas ar
Migration, Mobility and Place in Ancient Italy
Language: en
Pages: 553
Authors: Elena Isayev
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book examines the nature of human mobility, attitudes to it, and constructions of place over the last millennium BC in Rome and Italy. It demonstrates that
The Encyclopædia Britannica
Language: en
Pages: 1068
Authors:
Categories: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Type: BOOK - Published: 1911 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK