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"In Refuge beyond Reach, David Scott FitzGerald traces the origin and development of the practices deployed by governments to deter asylum seekers from the 1970s to the present. FitzGerald draws on official government documents, information obtained via WikiLeaks and FOIA requests from the CIA, and interviews with asylum seekers to systematically analyze the policies associated with the remote control of asylum seekers. He shows how the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia comply with the letter of law while violating the spirit of those laws through a range of remote control practices: the dome, the moat, the buffer, the cage, and the barbican. Remote control flourishes in secrecy behind the closed doors of consulates and airport terminals and in the anonymity of the seas and remote border regions. These policies may violate law, but Fitzgerald identifies some pressure points. Bilateral relationships, an autonomous judiciary enforcing rights, and oversight by transnational civil society watchdogs can temper the worst abuses"--Provided by publisher.
Abstract: The core of the asylum regime is the principle of non-refoulement that prohibits governments from sending refugees back to their persecutors. Governments attempt to evade this legal obligation to which they have explicitly agreed by manipulating territoriality. A remote control strategy of "extraterritorialization" pushes border control functions hundreds or even thousands of kilometers beyond the state's territory. Simultaneously, states restrict access to asylum and other rights enjoyed by virtue of presence on a state's territory, by making micro-distinctions down to the meter at the borderline in a process of "hyper-territorialization." This study analyzes remote controls since the 1930s in Palestine, North America, Europe, and Australia to identify the origins of different forms of remote control, explain how they work together as a system of control, and establish the conditions that enable or constrain them in practice. It argues that foreign policy issue linkages and transnational advocacy networks promoting a humanitarian norm that is less susceptible to the legal manipulation of territoriality constrains remote controls more than the law itself. The degree of constraint varies widely by the technique of remote control.

Table of Contents:

• The catch-22 of asylum policy
• Never again?
• Origins and limits of remote control
• The dome over the golden door
• The North American moat
• Raising the drawbridge to Cuba
• Buffering North America
• Building Fortress Europe
• The Euro-moat
• Stopping the refugee boats
• Protecting access to sanctuary.

Author/Creator:

FitzGerald, David, 1972- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Refuge beyond reach: how rich democracies repel asylum seekers [by FitzGerald, D.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Refuge beyond reach [by FitzGerald, D.] (New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019] — ISBN 9780190874155; LCCN 2018035437; OCLC Number 1055914125)

Subjects:

Refugees — Government policy — United States

Refugees — Government policy — Canada

Refugees — Government policy — Europe

Refugees — Government policy — Australia

Asylum, Right of — United States

Asylum, Right of — Canada

Asylum, Right of — Europe

Asylum, Right of — Australia

United States — Emigration and immigration — Government policy

Canada — Emigration and immigration — Government policy

Europe — Emigration and immigration — Government policy

Australia — Emigration and immigration — Government policy

International law and human rights

Refugees — Government policy

Refugees

Asylum, Right of

Emigration and immigration — Government policy

Australia

United States

Canada

Europe

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-343) and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Scholarship online, viewed September 3, 2020).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 359 pages) : illustrations, maps

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

JV6346 .F57 2019eb

ISBNs:

9780190874162 (electronic bk.)
0190874163 (electronic bk.)
9780190874186 (electronic bk.)
019087418X (electronic bk.)
9780190874155 (hardcover) [Invalid]
0190874155 (hardcover) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1088892346