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List of contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Acronyms
- Chapter 1. The Catch-22 of Asylum Policy
- Chapter 2. Never Again?
- Chapter 3. Origins and Limits of Remote Control
- Chapter 4. The Dome over the Golden Door
- Chapter 5. The North American Moat
- Chapter 6. Raising the Drawbridge
- Chapter 7. Buffering North America
- Chapter 8. Building Fortress Europe
- Chapter 9. The Euro-Moat
- Chapter 10. Stopping the Refugee Boats
- Chapter 11. Protecting Access to Sanctuary
- Notes
- References
- Index
About the author
David Scott FitzGerald is Theodore E. Gildred Chair in U.S.-Mexican Relations, Professor of Sociology, and Co-Director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego. His research analyzes policies regulating migration and asylum in countries of origin, transit, and destination. FitzGerald's books include Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas, which won the American Sociological Association's Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, and A Nation of Emigrants: How Mexico Manages its Migration.
Summary
Why do people seeking asylum often break immigration laws? Refuge Beyond Reach shows how rich democracies deliberately and systematically shut down most legal paths to safety. An architecture of repulsion in the air, at sea, and on land keeps most refugees far away from places where they can ask for sanctuary.
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FitzGerald persuasively shows how states in the global North have developed comprehensive systems for shutting out asylum-seekers fleeing persecution and violence. Based on innovative conceptual work and detailed case studies, Refuge beyond Reach provides a powerful and disturbing account of the undermining of principles fundamental to the international refugee regime through the construction of an 'architecture of repulsion
