TY - BOOK ID - 4839277 TI - Refugees and the myth of human rights : life outside the pale of the law PY - 2014 SN - 9781472430076 1472430077 9781315604350 9781317069263 9781317069270 9781138054783 PB - Farnham : Ashgate, DB - UniCat KW - Refugees KW - Human rights KW - Border security KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Réfugiés KW - Droits de l'homme (Droit international) KW - Sécurité frontalière KW - Emigration et immigration KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Government policy. KW - Government policy KW - Droit KW - Politique gouvernementale KW - Sécurité des frontières KW - Police KW - Philosophie politique KW - Droits de l'homme (droit international) KW - Émigration et immigration KW - Politique publique KW - Aspect politique KW - Statut juridique KW - Border security -- Government policy. KW - Emigration and immigration -- Government policy. KW - Human rights -- Government policy. KW - Refugees -- Government policy. KW - Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Political Science KW - Law, Politics & Government KW - Immigration & Emigration KW - Legal status, laws, etc KW - Réfugiés KW - Sécurité frontalière KW - Philosophie politique. KW - Politique publique. KW - Aspect politique. KW - Statut juridique. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4839277 AB - Most Western liberal democracies are parties to the United Nations Refugees Convention and all are committed to the recognition of basic human rights, but they also spend billions fortifying their borders, detaining unauthorised immigrants, and policing migration. Meanwhile, public debate over the West's obligations to unauthorised immigrants is passionate, vitriolic, and divisive. Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights combines philosophical, historical, and legal analysis to clarify the key concepts at stake in the debate, and to demonstrate the threat posed by contemporary border regimes to ER -