Asylum after Empire: Colonial Legacies in the Politics of Asylum Seeking (Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions)

Asylum after Empire: Colonial Legacies in the Politics of Asylum Seeking (Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions)

Lucy Mayblin
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Publication Date: June 29th, 2018
Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN:
9781783486168
Pages:
210
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Description

This book critiques existing literature on the response of Western states to asylum seeking 'others' and outlines an alternative perspective to acknowledge the colonial histories that have shaped the contemporary response of states to movements of refugees.

About the Author

Lucy Mayblin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her research focuses on the political sociology of asylum. Lucy is co-convenor of the British Sociological Association's Study Group on Diaspora, Migration and Transnationalism, has been Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, and 2015-2018 holds a prestigious ESRC Future Research Leaders fellowship for research in to the economic rights of asylum seekers. This book, which won the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2018, is based on her doctoral research, which was funded by the ESRC.

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