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Members of the list may be interested in this new book published by The Policy Press:
The British Immigration Courts
A Study of Law and Politics
by Max Travers
Immigration has been a controversial and contentious area of public
policy since the Commonwealth Immigrants Act ended most primary
immigration in 1962. This study looks in detail at the work of
practitioners in the court-system that hears appeals from immigrants and
asylum-seekers against decisions made by the British government.
It contains chapters about decision making in primary purpose and asylum
appeals, the administrative problems faced by successive British
governments, and the perspectives of pressure groups and politicians.
The book transforms our understanding of immigration as a political
issue through preserving a sense of routine work in the courts, civil
service and political process which is ignored or idealised by other
approaches. It will be essential reading for practitioners, academics
and students interested in current debates about policy.
CONTENTS: Sociology and immigration; Researching a court-system; The
appeals process; The primary purpose rule and the courts; Political
asylum and the courts; The courts as an administrative problem;
Immigration as a political issue; Conclusion.
Published by The Policy Press, Bristol.
ISBN 1 86134 172 5, hardback edition £40.00 ($72.00)
Orderline (Biblios Distribution Services): 01403-710851
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