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Author Campbell, John R

Title Bureaucracy, Law and Dystopia in the United Kingdom's Asylum System
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (221 pages)
Series Law and Migration
Law and migration.
Contents Bureaucracy, Law and Dystopia in the United Kingdom's Asylum System -- Front Cover; Bureaucracy, Law and Dystopia in the United Kingdom's Asylum System; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of boxes and tables; Boxes; Tables; List of cases; List of case law, international legal conventions and other legal documents; British case law; International legal conventions; Other legal documents; Cases in the European Court; British legislation; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: An anthropological approach to studying the asylum field; Anthropology, litigation and the state; The focus of fieldwork
Methods, research access and the limitations of this studyThe focus and organization of this book; Notes; Chapter 2: The evolution of the British asylum system; Aliens, refugees and the British Home Office in the twentieth century; Attempts to modernize the Home Office in the twenty-first century; Government litigation: the work of the Home Office Legal Adviser's Branch and the Treasury Solicitor's Office; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 3: The work of the British Home Office and the UK Border Agency; The Home Office and the UK Border Agency; The work of immigration officers
Litigation as a window illuminating the work of case owners/caseworkersAnalysis; Analysis of the work of HOPOs; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 4: Taking and making refugee claims: the work of immigration caseworkers, interpreters and barristers; Translating a story of flight into a claim of persecution; The case of Eritrea/DA; Preparing for the appeal: the work of caseworkers, barristers' clerks and barristers; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5: The Immigration and Asylum Tribunal and the work of Immigration Judges; The work of the Tribunal; The spatial architecture of the Tribunal
Appeals and the TribunalThe asylum appeal of Ethiopia/DY; Bail hearings; Deportation hearings; The deportation hearing of India/S; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 6: The politics of 'permission' and the Court of Appeal; The government and the asylum process: review, revenge, retreat ... legislate; The role of the AIT in 'filtering' applications for reconsideration; The Court of Appeal; Permission applications; Statutory appeals; The case of GM, YT and MY v SSHD; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 7: The Kafkaesque experience of seeking asylum in the UK
What do asylum seekers know about the UK prior to their arrival?Asylum law and policy: chopping and changing, reorganizing and refusing; Bureaucratic indifference and the experience of claiming asylum; A state of confusion?; Notes; Chapter 8: Interest groups, asylum policy and Home Office intransigence; Elite versus the 'organized public'? Problems in analysing political lobbying; Who influences asylum and immigration policy?; Conclusion; Notes; Conclusion and postscript; Comparative questions; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Summary "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."-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Asylum, Right of -- England
Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England
Asylum, Right of
Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Asylrecht
England
Großbritannien
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315444796
1315444798