Social Science Emigration & Immigration
Refugee Sandwich
Stories of Exile and Asylum
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2006
- Category
- Emigration & Immigration
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780773530966
- Publish Date
- Mar 2006
- List Price
- $37.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773530942
- Publish Date
- Mar 2006
- List Price
- $110.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773578838
- Publish Date
- Mar 2006
- List Price
- $37.95
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Description
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.