Asylum Between Nations

Author : Janet Polasky
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300271744

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Asylum between Nations by Janet Polasky Pdf

Why some of the most vulnerable communities in Europe, from independent cities to new monarchies, welcomed refugees during the Age of Revolutions and prospered “Janet Polasky unearths an unappreciated history of the experience of asylum in Europe and the United States since the Age of the Democratic Revolutions. Facing squarely the destruction of asylum in our own time, she ends with a stunningly optimistic vision of a path toward its reconstruction.”—Linda K. Kerber, author of No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies Driven from their homelands, refugees from ancient times to the present have sought asylum in worlds turned upside down. Theirs is an age‑old story. So too are the solutions to their plight. In the wake of the American and French Revolutions, thousands of men and women took to the roads and waterways on both sides of the Atlantic—refugees in search of their inalienable rights. Although larger nations fortified their borders and circumscribed citizenship, two port cities, German Hamburg and Danish Altona, opened their doors, as did the federated Swiss cantons and the newly independent Belgian monarchy. The refugees thrived and the societies that harbored them prospered. The United States followed, not only welcoming waves of immigrants in the mid‑nineteenth century but offering them citizenship as well. In this remarkable story of the first modern refugee crisis, historian Janet Polasky shows how open doors can be a viable alternative to the building of border walls.

Author : Rebecca Hamlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199373321

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Let Me Be a Refugee by Rebecca Hamlin Pdf

International law provides states with a common definition of a "refugee" as well as guidelines outlining how asylum claims should be decided. Yet even across nations with many commonalities, the processes of determining refugee status look strikingly different. This book compares the refugee status determination (RSD) regimes of three popular asylum seeker destinations: the United States, Canada, and Australia. Though they exhibit similarly high levels of political resistance to accepting asylum seekers, refugees access three very different systems-none of which are totally restrictive or expansive-once across their borders. These differences are significant both in terms of asylum seekers' experience of the process and in terms of their likelihood of being designated as refugees. Based on a multi-method analysis of all three countries, including a year of fieldwork with in-depth interviews of policy-makers and asylum-seeker advocates, observations of refugee status determination hearings, and a large-scale case analysis, Rebecca Hamlin finds that cross-national differences have less to do with political debates over admission and border control policy than with how insulated administrative decision-making is from either political interference or judicial review. Administrative justice is conceptualized and organized differently in every state, and so states vary in how they draw the line between refugee and non-refugee.

Author : Vladislava Stoyanova,Eleni Karageorgiou
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004368293

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The New Asylum and Transit Countries in Europe during and in the Aftermath of the 2015/2016 Crisis by Vladislava Stoyanova,Eleni Karageorgiou Pdf

Understanding the realities of protection in a Europe that had failed to manage the crisis in asylum that unfolded in 2015 and 2016 requires a comprehension of how law shapes and distorts refugee protection practices in frontline states. In this collection Vladislava Stoyanova and Eleni Karageorgiou provide an essential cartography of the state of asylum during the crisis. The volume captures four dynamics: the absorption of EU norms in Central and South Eastern Europe; the reaction in this region to the massive movement of asylum seekers in 2015 and 2016; the initiation of normative developments in the area of asylum during and beyond the crisis by the countries in this region; and the question of solidarity.

Author : Janet Polasky
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780300256567

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Asylum Between Nations by Janet Polasky Pdf

Why some of the most vulnerable communities in Europe, from independent cities to new monarchies, welcomed refugees during the Age of Revolutions and prospered "Janet Polasky unearths an unappreciated history of the experience of asylum in Europe and the United States since the Age of the Democratic Revolutions. Facing squarely the destruction of asylum in our own time, she ends with a stunningly optimistic vision of a path toward its reconstruction."--Linda K. Kerber, author of No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies Driven from their homelands, refugees from ancient times to the present have sought asylum in worlds turned upside down. Theirs is an age-old story. So too are the solutions to their plight. Historian Janet Polasky looks at the asylum freely offered in a revolutionary era when refugees sought shelter among emerging nation-states intent on securing their borders. This book reclaims the lost story of refugees and of the vulnerable communities that harbored them in the first modern refugee crisis. In the wake of the American and French Revolutions, thousands of men and women took to the roads and waterways on both sides of the Atlantic in search of their inalienable rights. Although larger nations fortified their borders and circumscribed citizenship, two port cities, German Hamburg and Danish Altona, opened their doors, as did the federated Swiss cantons and the newly independent Belgian monarchy. The refugees thrived and the societies prospered. The United States followed, not only welcoming waves of immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century but offering them citizenship. In this remarkable story, Polasky shows how open doors can be a viable alternative to the building of border walls.

Author : Ratna Omidvar and Dana Wagner
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781771132305

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Flight and Freedom by Ratna Omidvar and Dana Wagner Pdf

Author : Lawrence Hill
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443415842

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The Illegal by Lawrence Hill Pdf

Keita Ali is on the run. Like every boy on the mountainous island of Zantoroland, running is all Keita’s ever wanted to do. In one of the poorest nations in the world, running means respect. Running means riches—until Keita is targeted for his father’s outspoken political views and discovers he must run for his family’s survival. He signs on with notorious marathon agent Anton Hamm, but when Keita fails to place among the top finishers in his first race, he escapes into Freedom State—a wealthy island nation that has elected a government bent on deporting the refugees living within its borders in the community of AfricTown. Keita can stay safe only if he keeps moving and eludes Hamm and the officials who would deport him to his own country, where he would face almost certain death. This is the new underground: a place where tens of thousands of people deemed to be “illegal” live below the radar of the police and government officials. As Keita surfaces from time to time to earn cash prizes by running local road races, he has to assess whether the people he meets are friends or enemies: John Falconer, a gifted student struggling to escape the limits of his AfricTown upbringing; Ivernia Beech, a spirited old woman at risk of being forced into an assisted living facility; Rocco Calder, a recreational marathoner and the immigration minister; Lula DiStefano, self-declared queen of AfricTown and madam of the community’s infamous brothel; and Viola Hill, a reporter who is investigating the lengths to which her government will go to stop illegal immigration. Keita’s very existence in Freedom State is illegal. As he trains in secret, eluding capture, the stakes keep getting higher. Soon, he is running not only for his life, but for his sister’s life, too. Fast moving and compelling, The Illegal casts a satirical eye on people who have turned their backs on undocumented refugees struggling to survive in a nation that does not want them. Hill’s depiction of life on the borderlands of society urges us to consider the plight of the unseen and the forgotten who live among us.

Author : Phil Orchard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107076259

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A Right to Flee by Phil Orchard Pdf

This book examines the origins and evolution of refugee protection over the past four centuries.

Author : Herbert Emerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:255684993

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International Assistance to Refugees by Herbert Emerson Pdf

Author : María Cristina García
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520247017

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Seeking Refuge by María Cristina García Pdf

Tells the story of the 20th-century Central American migration, and how domestic and foreign policy interests shaped the asylum policies of Mexico, the United States, and Canada.

Author : Susan Burch
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469663364

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Committed by Susan Burch Pdf

Between 1902 and 1934, the United States confined hundreds of adults and children from dozens of Native nations at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, a federal psychiatric hospital in South Dakota. But detention at the Indian Asylum, as families experienced it, was not the beginning or end of the story. For them, Canton Asylum was one of many places of imposed removal and confinement, including reservations, boarding schools, orphanages, and prison-hospitals. Despite the long reach of institutionalization for those forcibly held at the Asylum, the tenacity of relationships extended within and beyond institutional walls. In this accessible and innovative work, Susan Burch tells the story of the Indigenous people—families, communities, and nations, across generations to the present day—who have experienced the impact of this history.

Author : Gil Loescher
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780271044576

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Refugees and the Asylum Dilemma in the West by Gil Loescher Pdf

Author : Dina Nayeri
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781646220212

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The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri Pdf

A Finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction "Nayeri combines her own experience with those of refugees she meets as an adult, telling their stories with tenderness and reverence.” —The New York Times Book Review "Nayeri weaves her empowering personal story with those of the ‘feared swarms’ . . . Her family’s escape from Isfahan to Oklahoma, which involved waiting in Dubai and Italy, is wildly fascinating . . . Using energetic prose, Nayeri is an excellent conduit for these heart–rending stories, eschewing judgment and employing care in threading the stories in with her own . . . This is a memoir laced with stimulus and plenty of heart at a time when the latter has grown elusive.” —Star–Tribune (Minneapolis) Aged eight, Dina Nayeri fled Iran along with her mother and brother and lived in the crumbling shell of an Italian hotel–turned–refugee camp. Eventually she was granted asylum in America. She settled in Oklahoma, then made her way to Princeton University. In this book, Nayeri weaves together her own vivid story with the stories of other refugees and asylum seekers in recent years, bringing us inside their daily lives and taking us through the different stages of their journeys, from escape to asylum to resettlement. In these pages, a couple fall in love over the phone, and women gather to prepare the noodles that remind them of home. A closeted queer man tries to make his case truthfully as he seeks asylum, and a translator attempts to help new arrivals present their stories to officials. Nayeri confronts notions like “the swarm,” and, on the other hand, “good” immigrants. She calls attention to the harmful way in which Western governments privilege certain dangers over others. With surprising and provocative questions, The Ungrateful Refugee challenges us to rethink how we talk about the refugee crisis. “A writer who confronts issues that are key to the refugee experience.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer and The Refugees

Author : Melissa Schnyder,Noha Shawki
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793600257

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Advocating for Refugees in the European Union by Melissa Schnyder,Noha Shawki Pdf

The crisis of forced displacement is compounded by the politicization of asylum and refugee protection, which have become polarizing issues in many countries in Europe and in the United States. It has animated efforts by pro-refugee civil society groups to engage in advocacy efforts that respond to the securitization of the issue, reframe it as a human rights and humanitarian issue, and bring about policies that are favorable to refugee protection. The contrasting points of view surrounding refugee and asylum policy reveal a fundamental normative difference in what is considered the most appropriate standard of behavior to guide actions and policies in the wake of the European refugee crisis. This normative difference, and the contestation that it entails, represents the starting point for this study of specific strategies of norm-based change. The study focuses on civil society organizations (CSOs) and the deliberate ways they incorporate and use norms in framing and responding to the issue of refugee protection. It seeks to understand and explain how and why pro-refugee advocacy groups choose to use specific norm-based strategies of advocacy in their effort to shift public opinion on the issues of asylum and refugee protection and ultimately bring about policy change.

Author : Susan F. Martin,Andrew I. Schoenholtz,David Fisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Asylum, Right of
ISBN : 9291904317

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Impact of Asylum on Receiving Countries by Susan F. Martin,Andrew I. Schoenholtz,David Fisher Pdf

Author : Lucy Mayblin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783486175

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Asylum after Empire by Lucy Mayblin Pdf

Asylum seekers are not welcome in Europe. But why is that the case? For many scholars, the policies have become more restrictive over recent decades because the asylum seekers have changed. This change is often said to be about numbers, methods of travel, and reasons for flight. In short: we are in an age of hypermobility and states cannot cope with such volumes of ‘others’. This book presents an alternative view, drawing on theoretical insights from Third World Approaches to International Law, post- and decolonial studies, and presenting new research on the context of the British Empire. The text highlights the fact that since the early 1990s, for the first time, the majority of asylum seekers originate from countries outside of Europe, countries which until 30-60 years ago were under colonial rule. Policies which address asylum seekers must, the book argues, be understood not only as part of a global hypermobile present, but within the context of colonial histories.