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OverviewInternational law provides states with a common definition of a ""refugee"" as well as guidelines outlining how asylum claims should be decided. Yet even across nations with many commonalities, the processes of determining refugee status look strikingly different. This book compares the refugee status determination (RSD) regimes of three popular asylum seeker destinations: the United States, Canada, and Australia. Though they exhibit similarly high levels of political resistance to accepting asylum seekers, refugees access three very different systems-none of which are totally restrictive or expansive-once across their borders. These differences are significant both in terms of asylum seekers' experience of the process and in terms of their likelihood of being designated as refugees. Based on a multi-method analysis of all three countries, including a year of fieldwork with in-depth interviews of policy-makers and asylum-seeker advocates, observations of refugee status determination hearings, and a large-scale case analysis, Rebecca Hamlin finds that cross-national differences have less to do with political debates over admission and border control policy than with how insulated administrative decision-making is from either political interference or judicial review. Administrative justice is conceptualized and organized differently in every state, and so states vary in how they draw the line between refugee and non-refugee. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rebecca Hamlin (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Grinnell College)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 25.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 15.50cm Weight: 0.318kg ISBN: 9780199373314ISBN 10: 0199373310 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 09 October 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Part One Chapter I - Let Me Be a Refugee Chapter II - Building a Cross-National Comparison of RSD Regimes Chapter III - 'Illegal Refugees' and the Rise of Restrictive Asylum Politics Part Two Chapter IV - Courting Asylum: The Judicialization of Refugee Status Determination in the United States Chapter V - The 'Cadillac' Bureaucracy: Refugee Status Determination in Canada Chapter VI - The Battle of the 'Bouncing Ball': Refugee Status Determination in Australia Part Three Chapter VII - Asylum for Women: Reading Gender into the Refugee Definition Chapter VIII - Escaping the People's Republic: Chinese Asylum Claims in Three RSD Regimes Chapter IX - Complementary Protection in a Complicated World Part Four Chapter X - Asylum Seeker Blues and the Globalization of Law Appendix: List of Interviews BibliographyReviewsThis book makes an important and original contribution to the scholarly literature, especially the literature on refugees but also the broader literature on the administrative state. It shows how consequential different institutional arrangements and legal/political cultures can be. I know of no other research that has opened up the black box of the state to examine the inner dynamics of the process of refugee determination. Hamlin does so in a way that is persuasive and illuminating. Anyone who works on refugees, whether in political science or law, will want to read this book. --Joseph H. Carens, University of Toronto Hamlin gives us a highly original account of the politics of asylum-seeking, focusing on constitutional law and administrative practice in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. An excellent piece of scholarship and a timely book, Let Me Be a Refugee will quickly become a classic and a must-read for anyone interested in refugee policy. --James F. Hollifield, Tower Center, SMU """This book makes an important and original contribution to the scholarly literature, especially the literature on refugees but also the broader literature on the administrative state. It shows how consequential different institutional arrangements and legal/political cultures can be. I know of no other research that has opened up the black box of the state to examine the inner dynamics of the process of refugee determination. Hamlin does so in a way that is persuasive and illuminating. Anyone who works on refugees, whether in political science or law, will want to read this book."" --Joseph H. Carens, University of Toronto ""Hamlin gives us a highly original account of the politics of asylum-seeking, focusing on constitutional law and administrative practice in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. An excellent piece of scholarship and a timely book, Let Me Be a Refugee will quickly become a classic and a must-read for anyone interested in refugee policy."" --James F. Hollifield, Tower Center, SMU" This book makes an important and original contribution to the scholarly literature, especially the literature on refugees but also the broader literature on the administrative state. It shows how consequential different institutional arrangements and legal/political cultures can be. I know of no other research that has opened up the black box of the state to examine the inner dynamics of the process of refugee determination. Hamlin does so in a way that is persuasive and illuminating. Anyone who works on refugees, whether in political science or law, will want to read this book. Joseph H. Carens, University of Toronto Hamlin gives us a highly original account of the politics of asylum-seeking, focusing on constitutional law and administrative practice in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. An excellent piece of scholarship and a timely book, Let Me Be a Refugee will quickly become a classic and a must-read for anyone interested in refugee policy. James F. Hollifield, Tower Center, SMU Author InformationRebecca Hamlin is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Grinnell College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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