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Spreading the 'burden'? : a review of policies to disperse asylum seekers and refugees / Vaughan Robinson, Roger Andersson and Sako Musterd.
Van Pelt Library HV640.4.G7 R63 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robinson, Vaughan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Refugees--Government policy--Great Britain.
- Refugees.
- Refugees--Government policy.
- Great Britain.
- Refugees--Government policy--Netherlands.
- Netherlands.
- Refugees--Government policy--Sweden.
- Sweden.
- Refugees--Civil rights--Great Britain.
- Refugees--Civil rights.
- Refugees--Civil rights--Netherlands.
- Refugees--Civil rights--Sweden.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 206 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy, 2003.
- Contents:
- 2 Defining the 'problem' / Vaughan Robinson 3
- Europe's changing place in the global refugee system 3
- The spatial concentration of asylum seekers 6
- The spatial concentration of costs and 'burdens' 8
- The media response 10
- Public opinion 19
- 3 Dispersal policies in the Netherlands / Martijn Arnoldus, Thea Dukes, Sako Musterd 25
- The Dutch context for dispersal policies 25
- The pursuit of dispersal policies, 1945-92 31
- Housing asylum seekers and refugees 38
- Contemporary dispersal of asylum seekers and status holders 40
- Dispersal policies: evaluation and appraisal 59
- 4 Dispersal policies in Sweden / Roger Andersson, Dennis Solid 65
- The Swedish context for dispersal policies 66
- Immigration to Sweden 67
- The refugee dispersal policy, 1985-94 75
- Reforming the 'Sweden-wide' strategy, 1994-2002 80
- The current organisation of immigration and integration issues in Sweden 86
- The geographical impact of the 'Sweden-wide' strategy 88
- Evaluating the dispersal policy 96
- 5 Dispersal policies in the UK / Vaughan Robinson 103
- Immigration to Britain: the long view 103
- Setting the context 104
- The current programme to disperse asylum seekers 121
- Continuing commentary on dispersal 136
- The Home Office internal review of 2001 141
- 6 What works? Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of dispersal / Vaughan Robinson 149
- The need for evidence 149
- The continuing demand for dispersal 150
- Desiderata for successful dispersal 150
- 7 Redefining the 'problem' and challenging the assumptions / Vaughan Robinson 159
- Is the clustering of refugees and asylum seekers really a 'problem'? 159
- Challenging the rationale for dispersal 165
- Dispersal, moral panics and the purity of space 167
- Reconceptualised problem, reconceptualised solutions 171.
- Notes:
- "A project funded by the European Commission."
- Includes bibliographical (pages 179-195) and index.
- ISBN:
- 186134418X
- 1861344171
- OCLC:
- 52195298
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