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Let me be a refugee : administrative justice and the politics of asylum in the United States, Canada, and Australia / Rebecca Hamlin

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Hamlin, Rebecca
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Administrative justice and the politics of asylum in the United States, Canada, and Australia0
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Contents
Part I. The puzzle of asylum politics -- Let Me Be a Refugee -- Building a Cross-National Comparison of RSD Regimes -- "Illegal Refugees"and the Rise of Restrictive Asylum Politics -- Part II. Three RSD Regimes Compared -- Courting Asylum: The Judicialization of Refugee Status Determination in the United States -- Chapter V -- The "Cadillac" Bureaucracy: Refugee Status Determination in Canada -- The Battle of the 'Bouncing Ball': Refugee Status Determination in Australia -- Part. III -- Asylum for Women: Reading Gender into the Refugee Definition -- Escaping the People's Republic of China: Chinese Asylum Claims in Three RSD Regimes -- Complementary Protection in a Complicated World -- Part IV. -- Asylum Seeker Blues and the Globalization of Law.
Summary
"This book compares the refugee status determination (RSD) regimes of three popular asylum seeker destinations. Despite similarly high levels of political resistance to accepting asylum seekers, because administrative justice is conceptualized and organized differently in every state, they vary in how they draw the line between refugee and non-refugee"--
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9780199373321 (electronic bk.)
0199373329 (electronic bk.)
9780199396733 (ebook)
0199396736 (ebook)
9780199373307 (print)
9780199373314 (print)
0199373302 (hardback)
0199373310 (paperback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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