The central concern of this book is to find answers to fundamental
questions about the British asylum system and how it operates.
Based on ethnographic research over a two-year period, the work
follows and analyses numerous asylum appeals through the British
courts. It draws on myriad interviews with individuals and a
thorough examination of many state and non-state organizations to
understand how the system works. While the organization of the book
reflects the formal asylum process, a focus on specific legal
appeals reveals the 'political' factors at play as different
institutions and actors seek to influence judicial decision-making
and overturn/uphold official asylum policy. The final chapter draws
on the author's ethnographic findings of the UK's 'asylum field' to
re-examine research on the Refugee Determination System in the US,
Canada and Australia which has narrowly focused on judicial
decision-making. It argues that analysis of Refugee Determination
Systems must be situated and studied as part of a wider, political,
semi-autonomous 'asylum field' which needs to be better understood.
Providing an in-depth ethnographic study of a national asylum
system and of immigration law and practice, the book will be an
invaluable resource for academics, researchers and policy-makers in
the UK and beyond working in this highly topical area.
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