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Author Vecchio, Francesco.

Title Asylum seeking and the global city / Francesco Vecchio
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge studies in criminal justice, borders and citizenship
Routledge studies in criminal justice, borders and citizenship.
Contents 1. The global city and asylum seeking -- 2. Global phenomena and local responses -- 3. Crossing borders into Hong Kong -- 4. Establishing life at the destination -- 5. Asylum seeker engagement with the informal economy -- 6. (Un)wanted people in the global city
Summary "The global city and asylum seeking are two major contemporary subjects of analysis to emerge both in the literature and public and official discourses on urban socioeconomic change, human rights and national security. Based on extensive original ethnographical research, this book looks at the situation of asylum seekers in Hong Kong and offers a narrative of experiences related to the rise of global cities; internal and external borders; and the performance of border-crossing and asylum politics. Hong Kong remains a city with no comprehensive legislation for refugee claims and maintains that the city would be flooded with abusive claims if changes were implemented. This book considers why Hong Kong has become a destination for asylum seekers, how asylum seekers integrate in local and global economic markets and how the illegalization of asylum seekers plays a significant role in the processes of global city formation"-- Provided by publisher
"Asylum seeking and the global city are two major contemporary subjects of analysis to emerge both in the literature and in public and official discourses on human rights, urban socioeconomic change and national security. Based on extensive, original ethnographic research, this book examines the situation of asylum seekers in Hong Kong and offers a narrative of their experiences related to internal and external borders, the performance of border crossing and asylum politics in the context of the global city. Hong Kong is a city with no comprehensive legislation covering refugee claims and official and public opinion is dominated by the view that the city would be flooded with illegal economic migrants were policy changes to be implemented. This book considers why Hong Kong has become a destination for asylum seekers, how asylum seekers integrate into local and global economic markets and why the illegalization of asylum seekers plays a significant role in the processes of global city formation. This book will be essential reading for academics and students involved in the study of migration; globalization and borders; research methods in criminology; social problems and urban sociology"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index
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Subject Political refugees -- China -- Hong Kong -- Social conditions
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Political refugees -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Hong Kong (China) -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Hong Kong (China) -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
Subject China -- Hong Kong
Form Electronic book
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