Borderline justice : : the fight for refugee and migrant rights / / Frances Webber ; foreword by Gareth Peirce

• VerfasserIn: Webber, Frances,
• TeilnehmendeR: Peirce, Gareth
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Pluto Press,, 2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 246 pages)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Borderline Justice describes the exclusionary policies, inhumane decisions and obstacles to justice for refugees and migrants in the British legal system. Frances Webber, a long-standing legal practitioner, reveals how the law has been (mis)applied to migrants, refugees and other 'unpopular minorities'. This book records some of the key legal struggles of the past thirty years which have sought to preserve values of universality in human rights - and the importance of continuing to fight for those values, inside and outside the courtroom. The themes and analysis cross boundaries of law, politics, sociology, criminology, refugee studies and terrorism studies, appealing to the radical tradition in all these disciplines.

Table of Contents

Arrival : contest at the border -- The war on asylum : preventing entry -- Struggles for fair decision-making -- You're not a refugee! -- Stay : battles for fair treatment -- The erosion of the law of humanity -- Migration management in the market state -- The fight for family life -- Prisoners of immigration control -- Departure : resisting total controls and mass removal -- The growth of the internal border force -- The deportation drive -- Enemies of the state.