Frontier justice
Subtitle: the global refugee crisis and what to do about it
By: Andy Lamey
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780385662543
Subjects: Human rights; Droits de l'homme (Droit international); Droit d'asile; Fluchtlingspolitik; Civil rights; Political refugees; Right of Asylum; Refugies; Refugies politiques; Fluchtling; Internationale Politik; Refugees
Other titles: Global refugee crisis and what to do about it
Description: Frontier Justice is a gripping exploration of the world-wide refugee crisis. Andy Lamey presents the story behind the radical increase in the global number of asylum-seekers, set within the historical and philosophical context in which the ideas of asylum originated and evolved.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The philosopher in exile; title: American Lavalas; title: A floating Berlin wall; title: The fatal shore; title: Raising the castle; title: An asylum made of thoughts; title: The right to have rights; title: The legend of Ahmed Ressam; title: In the tracks of Leviathan; title: Postscript: Refugees and terror.