Refugees Race and Asylum

by Prakash Shah and Shah Prakash

This work critically examines the principle of asylum for refugees in United Kingdom law, proposing that when faced with the migration of non-European refugee groups this principle has often been treated with disrespect. It considers the response of the state to the migration of various groups of refugees through five centuries. It covers the reaction of the legal system to the arrival of Gypsies and Huguenots from the Tudor period; African refugees from the American war of Independence; refugees from the French revolution; various European refugee groups in the mid-Victorian period; Jews from Eastern Europe and later from Nazism; and groups displaced in Europe as a result of World War II.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859416012
• ISBN13: 9781859416013
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Routledge Cavendish
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.1" x 9.2"