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The migration and settlement of refugees in Britain

Title: The migration and settlement of refugees in Britain / Alice Bloch.
Author: Bloch, Alice, 1964-
Publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

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Description

xiii, 229 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"This book will be an invaluable tool for students of migration, refugee studies, social policy, race and ethnic studies, politics, anthropology and sociology. It will also be of interest to policymakers, practitioners, local government officers and community organizations working with forced migrants."--Jacket.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-217) and index.

Contents

Theoretical and thematic concerns -- The categorization of forced migrants -- Refugees -- Asylum seekers -- Exceptional Leave to Remain -- Temporary protection -- The case study and the research basis -- The London Borough of Newham -- Newham's ethnic minority communities: demography and geography -- The case study groups -- Migration to Britain and Policy Responses -- Early migrants -- Migration: 1800 until 1914 -- Migration: 1914 until 1945 -- Migration: 1945 until 1961 -- Eastern European displaced persons and European Volunteer Workers -- Migration from Commonwealth countries -- Controlling migration: 1962 until 1988 -- Demography and geography of ethnic groups at the end of the twentieth century -- Race relations -- Current UK and European Policy -- Refugee migration at the end of the twentieth century -- Policy responses to refugees at the end of the twentieth century -- Detention -- Immigration legislation in the 1990s -- Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act, 1993 -- Asylum and Immigration Act, 1996 -- Immigration and Asylum Act, 1999 -- The policy of dispersal -- The EU context -- Harmonization of asylum policy -- Provisions for asylum seekers in European countries -- Theories of Refugee Migration and Migration to Britain -- Theories of migration -- Neo-classical economic equilibrium perspective -- Historical-structuralist approach -- Migration systems approach -- Refugees: a unique type of migrant -- Trafficking and smuggling -- Refugee migration to Britain -- Seeking asylum in Britain -- Reasons for coming to Britain.

ISBN

0333969235
9780333969236

LCCN

2002022076

OCLC

ocm49225591
49225591
SCSB-1269385

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library