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Law and Asylum - Space, Subject, Resistance (Paperback)
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Law and Asylum - Space, Subject, Resistance (Paperback)
Series: Law and Migration
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In contrast to the claim that refugee law has been a key in
guaranteeing a space of protection for refugees, this book argues
that law has been instrumental in eliminating spaces of protection,
not just from one's persecutors but also from the grasp of
sovereign power. By uncovering certain fundamental aspects of
asylum as practised in the past and in present day social
movements, namely its concern with defining space rather than
people and its role as a space of resistance or otherness to
sovereign law, this book demonstrates that asylum has historically
been antagonistic to law and vice versa. In contrast,
twentieth-century refugee law was constructed precisely to ensure
the effective management and control over the movements of forced
migrants. To illustrate the complex ways in which these two
paradigms - asylum and refugee law - interact with one another,
this book examines their historical development and concludes with
in-depth studies of the Sanctuary Movement in the United States and
the Sans-Papiers of France. The book will appeal to researchers and
students of refugee law and refugee studies; legal and political
philosophy; ancient, medieval and modern legal history; and
sociology of political movements.
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