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Social Science Emigration & Immigration

Refugee Sandwich

Stories of Exile and Asylum

by (author) Peter Showler

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2006
Category
Emigration & Immigration
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773530966
    Publish Date
    Mar 2006
    List Price
    $37.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773530942
    Publish Date
    Mar 2006
    List Price
    $110.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773578838
    Publish Date
    Mar 2006
    List Price
    $37.95

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Showler uses satire to expose the prejudices, myopia, ignorance, provincialism, and lack of sensitivity that mark the decisions of officials. Refugee Sandwich attacks the patronage-based system of appointment and re-appointment and its sometimes tragic consequences, revealing the wide gulf between legal ideal and legal fact. Against a historical analysis of human rights abuses from a dozen countries, the author offers a sympathetic rendering of the predicament of the refugee claimant as well as a critical look at some of the more common devices and abusive strategies employed by fraudulent claimants.

About the author

Peter Showler is adjunct professor, law, University of Ottawa, consultant, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, and associate, Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa.

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