Refugee Sandwich

Stories of Exile and Asylum

• Author(s): Peter Showler,
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
• Pages: 256
• ISBN_10: 0773576754
  ISBN_13: 9780773576759
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Social History , Political Science / Public Policy / General , Political Science / Public Policy / Immigration , Social Science / Emigration & Immigration , SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies , Social Science / Refugees ,

Description:... Showler uses satire to expose the prejudices, myopia, ignorance, provincialism, and lack of sensitivity that mark the decisions of officials. Refugee Sandwich attacks the patronage-based system of appointment and re-appointment and its sometimes tragic consequences, revealing the wide gulf between legal ideal and legal fact. Against a historical analysis of human rights abuses from a dozen countries, the author offers a sympathetic rendering of the predicament of the refugee claimant as well as a critical look at some of the more common devices and abusive strategies employed by fraudulent claimants.