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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
David FitzGerald |
ISBN: | 9780190874155 0190874155 |
OCLC Number: | 1055914125 |
Awards: | Winner of Winner of the 2020 Thomas and Znaniecki Book Award 2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. |
Description: | x, 359 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
Contents: | The catch-22 of asylum policy -- Never again? -- Origins and limits of remote control -- The dome over the golden door -- The North American moat -- Raising the drawbridge to Cuba -- Buffering North America -- Building Fortress Europe -- The Euro-moat -- Stopping the refugee boats -- Protecting access to sanctuary. |
Other Titles: | How rich democracies repel asylum seekers |
Responsibility: | David Scott FitzGerald. |
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FitzGerald persuasively shows how states in the global North have developed comprehensive systems for shutting out asylum-seekers fleeing persecution and violence. Based on innovative conceptual work and detailed case studies, Refuge beyond Reach provides a powerful and disturbing account of the undermining of principles fundamental to the international refugee regime through the construction of an 'architecture of repulsion * T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Professor and Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, The New School, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees (2010-15) * For many European and North American nations, our asylum to refugees became part of our identity. But now, the richest, most peaceful, and well-organized societies are competing in a race to the bottom in becoming the least welcoming to people fleeing violence, war, and persecution. In Refuge beyond Reach, FitzGerald explains how and why the most powerful nations on Earth ended up betraying ancient signs of civilization and leaving the protection of refugeesup to communities that have neither the resources nor the stability to protect the most vulnerable in their hour of greatest need. It is an important book for our time and age * Jan Egeland, Secretary General, Norwegian Refuge Council, former UN Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs * Refuge beyond Reach is a meticulously researched and fascinating unveiling of the current practice by countries to shirk and undermine international refugee protection. FitzGerald's passionate analysis, highlighting the Canadian, US, EU, and Australian models, dissects the harmful legal and policy foundations informing and influencing current global practice to restrict the right to seek asylum. An eye-opener and useful reference for scholars andpractitioners alike * Charmain Mohamed, Head of Refugee and Migrant Rights, Amnesty International * In Refuge beyond Reach, FitzGerald documents how rich democracies deploy techniques of "remote control" to deliberately prevent refugees from reaching sanctuary. Meticulously researched and comprehensive in scope, the book traces how prosperous democracies of the global North-Australia, Canada, the EU, and the US-have deliberately and systematically violated the spirit of refugee protection laws by shutting down most legal paths for asylum seekers to claimasylum. Although these countries do not repatriate refugees, they have implemented a number of so-called remote control measures-including complex visa and air transportation policies, asylee caging on third-country territories, maritime interception policies-to keep out unwanted foreigners.Refuge beyondReachis an invaluable and timely reference for all who are interested in protection of refugees. * Y. L. Espiritu, University of California San Diego, CHOICE * Read more...


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