Spreading the 'burden'?: A review of policies to disperse asylum seekers and refugees

Spreading the 'burden'?: A review of policies to disperse asylum seekers and refugees
ISBN-10
184742578X
ISBN-13
9781847425782
Category
Social Science
Pages
224
Language
English
Published
2003-07-30
Publisher
Policy Press
Authors
Roger, Vaughan, Robinson

Description

European governments are now engaging in one of the largest exercises in social engineering that the continent has seen since the Second World War. Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and refugees in Europe are now being denied their basic right to choose where they live and are instead being compulsorily dispersed. Spreading the 'burden' is: · the first book-length study of dispersal policies; · explicitly comparative in nature and written by three national experts; · highly topical and controversial as the review of dispersal policies is under way in many countries; · a valuable case-study of how society deals with 'outsider' groups and space. The book is essential reading for national and local policy makers, those interested in human rights, social policy and refugee studies, as well as human geographers and sociologists.

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