Refugee Sandwich

Stories of Exile and Asylum

Peter Showler

• Editorial: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Año: 2006
• ISBN:
  9780773578838
• Categoría: Sciences sociales
• Categoría: Émigration et immigration

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.