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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.
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.
In 1998 a bloody war erupted in The Horn of Africa between Ethiopia
and Eritrea. During the war Ethiopia arrested and expelled 70,000
of its citizens, and stripped another 50,000-plus of their
citzenship on the basis of their presumed ethnicity. Nationalism,
Law and Statelessness: Grand Illusions in the Horn of Africa
examines the events which led up to the war, documents the
expulsions and denationalisations that took place and follows the
flight of these stateless Ethiopians out of the Horn into Europe.
The core issue examined is the link between sovereignty and
statelessness as this plays out in The Horn of Africa and in the
West. The book provides a valuable insight into how nations create
and perpetuate statelessness, the failure of law, both national and
international, to protect and address the plight of stateless
persons, and the illusory nature of nationalism, citizenship and
human rights in the modern age. The study is one of a very few
which examines the problem of statelessness through the accounts of
stateless persons themselves. This book will be of great interest
to students and researchers in anthropology, law, politics, African
studies and refugee studies as well as professionals and all those
interested in stateless persons in the West, including Eritreans,
who continue to be denied basic rights.
In 1998 a bloody war erupted in The Horn of Africa between Ethiopia
and Eritrea. During the war Ethiopia arrested and expelled 70,000
of its citizens, and stripped another 50,000-plus of their
citzenship on the basis of their presumed ethnicity. Nationalism,
Law and Statelessness: Grand Illusions in the Horn of Africa
examines the events which led up to the war, documents the
expulsions and denationalisations that took place and follows the
flight of these stateless Ethiopians out of the Horn into Europe.
The core issue examined is the link between sovereignty and
statelessness as this plays out in The Horn of Africa and in the
West. The book provides a valuable insight into how nations create
and perpetuate statelessness, the failure of law, both national and
international, to protect and address the plight of stateless
persons, and the illusory nature of nationalism, citizenship and
human rights in the modern age. The study is one of a very few
which examines the problem of statelessness through the accounts of
stateless persons themselves. This book will be of great interest
to students and researchers in anthropology, law, politics, African
studies and refugee studies as well as professionals and all those
interested in stateless persons in the West, including Eritreans,
who continue to be denied basic rights.
Mountains Drawn By Memory describes the last two years in the life
of Robere Merleau, a California painter. After a prologue set in
the Himalaya, the story takes place in California and Wyoming, as
Robere searches for connection with loved ones, his past, and the
land. Robere meets Lorenza, a strong and enigmatic woman who
matches his intensity, and he renews his relationship with his
estranged daughter, Claire. Throughout, the consciousness of an
artist unfolds, revealing the intricacies of landscape and loss.
While many books have criticized higher education for an apparent
bias towards leftist agendas, John R. Campbell takes a different
approach. Through the compilation of 65 vignettes that peek behind
the boardroom door, the author focuses on the bureaucratic and
organizational stagnation that has led to "dry rot" in the ivory
towers of academia. Dry Rot in the Ivory Tower presents substantive
evidence of the problems that exist in universities today, and
provides the author's prognosis for change. He addresses nepotism,
ineffective faculty, lack of effective leadership, and other
serious problems at our institutions of higher education.
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