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What happens when human rights norms and law collide with the complexities of asylum decision-making? This book offers a bold examination of how institutional dynamics and human rights oversight shape the intricate mechanisms behind asylum adjudication. By framing asylum law as an 'entangled regime,' the author uncovers how national decision-makers interpret, apply and contest norms of national, international and institutional origin, offering invaluable insights into the evolving landscape of migrants' rights. Through a socio-legal lens, it focuses on the Nordic countries-a region renowned for its policy experimentation and increasingly marked by anti-immigrant politics. Against this politically charged backdrop, where a history of compliance means/results in a robust rights-focused legal framework, international law faces some of its most rigorous challenges.

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“A profound socio-legal analysis, unraveling the complexities of asylum law and human rights in the Nordic region.” Maja Janmyr, University of Oslo “Studies of asylum law and politics too often focus on just one country, one decision-making body or just look at legal opinions. In contrast, Sarah Scott Ford’s excellent book gives us a truly comparative and holistic study of asylum law in the Nordic region, explaining in rich detail how domestic actors translate and co-produce international law within their institutional contexts. While the Nordic states are unique in certain ways, Ford’s concept of entanglement gives scholars of asylum law and politics a powerful comparative tool which can be applied in other jurisdictions and will enable further much-needed comparative work in the field. This work is an important contribution and a must-read.” Rebecca Hamlin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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Sarah Scott Ford is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Mobile Centre of Excellence for Global Mobility Law at the University of Copenhagen.

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