Spreading the 'burden'?: A Review of Policies to Disperse Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Vaughan Robinson, Roger Andersson & Sako Musterd

ISBN 10: 1861344171 / ISBN 13: 9781861344175

Published by Bristol: Policy Press, 2003

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Paperback. ; Measures Trade Paperback (9¼" x 6") (0.4 kg); pp 206; Index; Bibliography; Preface by Vaughan Robinson; From the introduction: "This book provides a comparative analysis of European state policies relating to the dispersal of asylum seekers and refugees. The seeds of the project lie in the work of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) Integration Task Force, which was established by the Council of Europe to define, encourage and establish good practice in refugee integration. The task force, by means of its projects and annual conferences, encouraged not only the networking of organisations involved in refugee integration across Europe, but also the definition of good practice through the comparison of national models. It identified key axes of integration, established working groups for each one, and funded many practical projects designed to implement good practice across national boundaries.". || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #161756 ||.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Spreading the 'burden'?: A Review of Policies to Disperse Asylum Seekers and Refugees
• Publisher: Bristol: Policy Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1861344171
• ISBN 13: 9781861344175
• Binding: Paperback (No Dust Wrapper.)
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sociology & Politics

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Synopsis

European governments are now engaging in one of the largest exercises in social engineering that the continent has seen since the Second World War. Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and refugees in Europe are now being denied their basic right to choose where they live and are instead being compulsorily dispersed. Spreading the 'burden' is: · the first book-length study of dispersal policies; · explicitly comparative in nature and written by three national experts; · highly topical and controversial as the review of dispersal policies is under way in many countries; · a valuable case-study of how society deals with 'outsider' groups and space. The book is essential reading for national and local policy makers, those interested in human rights, social policy and refugee studies, as well as human geographers and sociologists.

About the Author

Dr Vaughan Robinson is Professor in Human Geography at University of Wales, Swansea and is the Director of the Migration Unit there. He has undertaken research and written about dispersal policies since 1977 and has recently worked on a number of projects for the Home Office on this topic. Professor Sako Musterd is Director of the Study Centre for the Metropolitan Environment at the University of Amsterdam. He is an expert in urban residential segregation and has published extensively in this field. Roger Andersson is a Professor of Social and Economic Geography in the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University. He has researched the distribution of ethnic minorities and refugees in Sweden over a number of years and has written widely on this topic, as well as on immigrant integration and internal migration.