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Let me be a refugee
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ISBN: 0199373329 9780199373321 9780199396733 0199396736 9780199373307 9780199373314 0199373302 0199373310 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oxford New York


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Refuge beyond reach : how rich democracies repel asylum seekers
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ISBN: 9780190874155 9780190874162 9780190874179 9780197649848 0190874155 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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"In Refuge beyond Reach, David Scott FitzGerald traces the origin and development of the practices deployed by governments to deter asylum seekers from the 1970s to the present. FitzGerald draws on official government documents, information obtained via WikiLeaks and FOIA requests from the CIA, and interviews with asylum seekers to systematically analyze the policies associated with the remote control of asylum seekers. He shows how the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia comply with the letter of law while violating the spirit of those laws through a range of remote control practices: the dome, the moat, the buffer, the cage, and the barbican. Remote control flourishes in secrecy behind the closed doors of consulates and airport terminals and in the anonymity of the seas and remote border regions. These policies may violate law, but Fitzgerald identifies some pressure points. Bilateral relationships, an autonomous judiciary enforcing rights, and oversight by transnational civil society watchdogs can temper the worst abuses"--

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