Refuge Beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers

In Refuge Beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers, David Scott Fitzgerald addresses one of the significant global issues of our times: how the rich democracies of the Global North strategically manage the growing flow of refugees by creating an “architecture of repulsion”: a global system of converging policies and practices aimed at keeping asylum seekers away from spaces where they can ask for sanctuary. Carefully researched and comprehensive in scope, Refuge Beyond Reach, traces how this global system of deterrence emerged in response to the constraints imposed on states by the legal principle of nonrefoulment which prohibits...