The Exclusionary Politics of Asylum

• Author(s): V. Squire,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 221
• ISBN_10: 0230233619
  ISBN_13: 9780230233614
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Emigration & Immigration , Political Science / World / European , Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Research , Political Science / General , Political Science / Public Policy / General ,

Description:... This critique of the securitization and criminalization of asylum seeking challenges the claim that asylum seekers 'threaten' receiving states. It analyzes recent policy developments in relation to their wider historical, political and European contexts and argues that the UK response effectively renders asylum seekers as scapegoats.