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Spreading the 'burden'?: A review of policies to disperse asylum seekers and refugees
Vaughan Robinson
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Description for Spreading the 'burden'?: A review of policies to disperse asylum seekers and refugees
Paperback. This topical book outlines the expressed rationale for dispersal policies, reviews how such policies have been implemented in the UK, Netherlands and Sweden, identifies good practice and challenges the need for dispersal. Related titles include 'Doing research with refugees' and 'Refugee community organisations and dispersal'. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DDN; 1DNS; JFFN; JFS; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 168 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
European governments are now engaging in one of the largest exercises in social engineering that the continent has seen since the Second World War. Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and refugees in Europe are now being denied their basic right to choose where they live and are instead being compulsorily dispersed. Spreading the 'burden' is: * the first book-length study of dispersal policies; * explicitly comparative in nature and written by three national experts; * highly topical and controversial as the review of dispersal policies is under way in many countries; * a ... Read more
European governments are now engaging in one of the largest exercises in social engineering that the continent has seen since the Second World War. Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and refugees in Europe are now being denied their basic right to choose where they live and are instead being compulsorily dispersed. Spreading the 'burden' is: * the first book-length study of dispersal policies; * explicitly comparative in nature and written by three national experts; * highly topical and controversial as the review of dispersal policies is under way in many countries; * a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Policy Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Weight
348g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861344175
SKU
V9781861344175
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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99-50
About Vaughan Robinson
Dr Vaughan Robinson is Professor in Human Geography at University of Wales, Swansea and is the Director of the Migration Unit there. He has undertaken research and written about dispersal policies since 1977 and has recently worked on a number of projects for the Home Office on this topic. Professor Sako Musterd is Director of the Study Centre for ... Read more
Reviews for Spreading the 'burden'?: A review of policies to disperse asylum seekers and refugees
The authors of this insightful book delve into asylum in a way that will appeal to many readers. This is an excellent book. Community Care This book is definitely a frontrunner as it sets out to dispel widespread myths fuelled by the media's hype about 'the burden' of settling and integrating refugees. The authors offer a sophisticated analysis ... Read more