Safe places and unsafe places:Geography and the 1996 asylum and immigration act in the United Kingdom

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dc.contributor.authorWhite, Allen
dc.date.accessioned2011-02-23T16:29:39Z
dc.date.available2011-02-23T16:29:39Z
dc.date.issued1998
dc.date.updated2010-10-05T10:43:12Z
dc.description.abstractOver the last decade and a half the international refugee régime, as enshrined by the 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol has come under sustained attack in western states. This is because of implicit assumptions about the universalism of the refugee identity and the rootedness of national identities by the framers, drafters and subsequent commentators on international refugee law (see Malkki 1992, and Hyndman 1998). Critical approaches to international refugee law have sufered from underdeveloped ideas about space and about the relationship between geography and law. In this paper I point to geographical and geopolitical assumptions and thinking that lies behind the passage and enforcement of accelerated asylum determination and appeal procedures in the United Kingdom. I conclude by suggesting how the moral landscape of refugee and asylum law might be re-oriented to stress connections between the United Kingdom and persecuted and oppressed peoples rather than stress the protection of the UK's boundariesen
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationWhite, A.,1998. Safe places and unsafe places:Geography and the 1996 asylum and immigration act in the United Kingdom. Refuge, 17 (6):5-12.en
dc.identifier.endpage12en
dc.identifier.issn0229-5113
dc.identifier.issued6en
dc.identifier.journaltitleRefuge: Canada's periodical on refugeesen
dc.identifier.startpage5en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/217
dc.identifier.volume17en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherCentre for Refugee Studies, York University and Queen's Universityen
dc.relation.urihttps://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/refuge/article/view/21994
dc.rights© Refugeen
dc.rights.urihttps://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/refuge/about/submissions#copyrightNoticeen
dc.subjectLegal geographiesen
dc.subject.lcshAsylum, Right of -- Great Britainen
dc.subject.lcshEmigration and immigration law -- Great Britainen
dc.subject.lcshRefugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Great Britainen
dc.titleSafe places and unsafe places:Geography and the 1996 asylum and immigration act in the United Kingdomen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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