This open access monograph provides sociological insight into governmental action on the administration of asylum in the European context. It offers an in-depth

In July 1999, Canadian authorities intercepted four boats off the coast of British Columbia carrying nearly six hundred Chinese citizens who were being smuggled

A former Undersecretary of Defense for the first Bush administration strongly advises the United States to withdraw support from the United Nations, arguing tha

This open access book examines everyday practices in an asylum administration. Asylum decisions are often criticised as being ‘subjective’ or ‘arbitrary�

As groups of forcibly displaced people have moved to the spotlight of public debate in Europe, they are also being targeted by multiple welfare state interventi