The Challenge of Asylum to Legal Systems [Hardcover]

A collection of papers presenting critical perspectives in the development of asylum law with a focus on European and UK developments, incorporating international human rights law and comparative law perspectives. Issues covered range from law-making at the EU level, with a particular focus on extra-territorial processing of refugees claims, asylum procedures, family members of those in need of protection, welfare benefits and impact of national level on the reception of EU norms. Domestic and comparative perspectives offered include discussions on detention, judicial decision-making, appeal rights, claims processing with particular reference to the role of interpreters and developments in Australia which have provided a model of thought worthy of emulation in the UK.List of Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: From Legal Centralism to Official Lawlessness? /@Prakash Shah -- 1 Asylum Seekers in the New Europe: Time for a Rethink? /@Dallal Stevens -- 2 Protecting Refugees in the Context of Immigration Controls /@Catherine Phuong -- 3 Deflecting Refugees: A Critique of the EC Asylum Procedures Directive /@Sarah Craig and Maria Fletcher -- 4 EC Law on Family Members of Persons Seeking or Receiving International Protection /@Steve Peers -- 5 Towards a Just European Welfare System for Migrants? /@Keith Puttick -- 6 A Common EU Immigration and Asylum Policy: National and Institutional Constraints /@Valsamis Mitsilegas -- 7 Detention of Asylum Seekers and Refugees and International Human Rights Law /@Dan Wilsher -- 8 Judging Asylum /@Colin Harvey -- 9 Asylum Appeals: The Challenge of Asylum to the British Legal System /@Robert Thomas -- 10 Communicative Barriers in the Asylum Account /@Roxana Rycroft -- 11 Dont Bother Knocking: Australias Response to Asylum Seekers /@Ernst Willheim -- Index

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