Law and Asylum: Space, Subject, Resistance

ISBN-13: 9781138304178 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 270 str.

Simon Behrman

Opis

In contrast to the claim that refugee law has been key in guaranteeing 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, this work demonstrates that asylum has historically been antagonistic to law, and vice versa. To illustrate the complex ways in which these two paradigms – asylum and refugee law – interact with one another, the book examines the Sanctuary Movement in the US and the Sans-Papiers of France.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I – The Space of Asylum; 1: The Rise and Fall of Asylum in Antiquity; 2: Sanctuary in England; Part II – The Creation of the Refugee Subject; 3: The Nation-State Origins of Refugee Law; 4: The Evolution and Impact of International Refugee Law; Part III – Resistance: Grassroots Asylum; 5: The US Sanctuary Movement; 6: The Sans-Papiers; Conclusion;

O autorze

Simon Behrman is lecturer in law at Royal Holloway, University of London.