The Exclusionary Politics of Asylum
Vicki Squire
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Description for The Exclusionary Politics of Asylum
Hardback. 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. Series: Migration, Minorities & Citizenship. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Series
Migration, Minorities & Citizenship
Condition
New
Weight
428g
Number of Pages
221
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230216594
SKU
V9780230216594
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Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
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99-1
About Vicki Squire
VICKI SQUIRE is RCUK Research Fellow at the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance and at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), The Open University, UK.
Reviews for The Exclusionary Politics of Asylum
Shortlisted for the 2010 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 'Theoretically sophisticated and empirically well-grounded, The Exclusionary Politics of Asylum is an important addition to critical literature on the politics of refuge in Europe. Squire's assured dissection of the discourses and practices through which the problematic figure of the asylum seeker is produced underpins ... Read more