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Subject(s)

• Refugees—Government policy—Great Britain [Browse]
• Asylum, Right of—Great Britain [Browse]
• Refugees—Government policy—Germany [Browse]
• Asylum, Right of—Germany [Browse]

Series

• British politics and society. [More in this series]
• Cass series--British politics and society, 1467-1441

Summary note

Annotation All European states have the legal right to grant asylum but only Germany is obliged by law to do so. Liza Schuster contributes to the asylum debate primarily in the area of comparative politics in this study of British and German policies on asylum practice.

Notes

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Book Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• List of Figures and Tables
• Introduction
• Immigration and Asylum
• Asylum Seekers and the State System
• Methodology
• Outline of the Book
• NOTES
• Part One THEORY AND CONTEXT
• 1 Theoretical and Conceptual Issues
• Asylum Seekers-Political or Economic Migrants?
• Security Threats and Human Rights
• Asylum as a Moral and Political Philosophy Issue
• Special Duties
• Universal Duties
• The Practical Limits of Moral Obligations and Legitimate Restrictions on Migration
• The Question of Legitimacy
• Conclusion
• 2 The Origins and Development of Asylum
• The Origins of Asylum
• Asylum in early Christian times: Church Asylum in Ascendance
• From the Reformation to Westphalia: Church Asylum Gives Way to Territorial Asylum
• The Revolutions of 1789 and 1848 and the Emergence of the Political Refugee
• The Two World Wars
• 3 Constructions of the Refugee Problem since the Second World War
• The Construction of a Problem
• The Construction of Solutions
• Repatriation
• Asylum
• Non-refoulement
• The Development of a European Response
• The Single Market
• The End of the Cold War
• A Reconstruction of the Refugee Problem
• New Solutions: Containment and Temporary Asylum
• Temporary Asylum/Protection
• Containment
• Part Two THE SPECIAL CASE STUDIES
• 4 Refugee and Asylum Policies in Britain
• The Post-war Period, 1945-70
• An Unconstitutional State?
• Welfare and Labour
• The Cold War and the Commonwealth
• The Re-emergence of Asylum, 1970-79
• The Start of the Retreat, 1979-89
• Asylum Seekers as Threats, 1989 to the Present
• Threat to the Welfare State
• Threat to British Identity
• Threat to the Liberal State
• The Battle for Control.
• Government Strategy and the Numbers Game
• Recognition Rates and Fraudulent Claims
• Acts of Restriction and Deterrence
• Opposition to the Legislation
• Prospects for the Future
• 5 Refugee and Asylum Policies in Germany
• The German State Re-invented, 1945-733
• Rechtsstaat
• Volksstaat
• Sozialmarktwirtschaft
• European State
• The Cold War
• Closing the Border, 1973-89
• The Refugee Problem: A Convenient Fig-Leaf? 1989 to the Present
• Threat to the Liberal Rechtsstaat
• Threat to Identity
• The Removal of Asylum from the Constitution and Public Debate
• Extra-parliamentary Opposition
• The Chosen Solution: Article 16a and Subsequent Measures
• 6 A Critical Comparison of the British and German Experience
• Britain and Germany: The Differences
• Geography
• History
• Citizenship
• Constitutions
• The Politics of Asylum
• The Similarities: Nation-states, Sozialmarktwirtschaften and Liberal Democracies
• Nation-states
• Welfare
• Multi-party Representative Democracies
• The Constraints Imposed by Democratic Elections
• A Balance Sheet
• Part Three CONCLUSION
• 7 Rethinking the Politics of Asylum and Refuge
• The Arguments So Far
• Particularist and Universalist Perspectives
• A'Particularist' Future
• Limited Universalism?
• The Need for a Radical Alternative?
• References
• Index.

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ISBN

• 1-135-76182-5
• 0-7146-5385-3
• 1-135-76183-3
• 1-280-05246-5
• 0-203-49985-9

OCLC

• 475912956
• 1055396712

International Article Number

• 9780714653853

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