Asylum Seeking and the Global City

This book considers why Hong Kong has become a destination for asylum seekers, how asylum seekers integrate into local and global economic markets and why the illegalization of asylum seekers plays a significant role in the processes of global city formation.

Summary

This book considers why Hong Kong has become a destination for asylum seekers, how asylum seekers integrate into local and global economic markets and why the illegalization of asylum seekers plays a significant role in the processes of global city formation.

Product details

• Authors: Francesco Vecchio, Vecchio Francesco
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2014
• EAN: 9780415858755
• ISBN: 978-0-415-85875-5
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Routledge Studies in Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Human Rights, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Anthropology, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Migration, immigration & emigration, Regional Studies, Political Economy, Migration, immigration and emigration, Legal aspects of criminology, Regional / International studies, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Human rights, civil rights, Criminal justice law, Criminology: legal aspects