Spreading the 'Burden'

A review of policies to disperse asylum seekers and refugees

Bibliographic Data

ID19998934
AuthorsVaughan Robinson (corresponding author), Roger Andersson (0000-0001-9832-5847), Sako Musterd (0000-0003-2578-9098)
Year2003
Pages206
Publication date2003-07-30
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueSpreading the 'burden'? (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPolicy Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1332/policypress/9781861344175.001.0001
OpenAlexW2798544084
Open LibraryOL3354188M
ISBN9781861344175
LanguageEN
Citations received52

European governments are now engaging in one of the largest exercises in social engineering that the continent has seen since the Second World War. Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and refugees in Europe are now being denied their basic right to choose where they live and are instead being compulsorily dispersed. Spreading the 'burden' is: · the first book-length study of dispersal policies; · explicitly comparative in nature and written by three national experts; · highly topical and controversial as the review of dispersal policies is under way in many countries; · a valuable case-study of how society deals with 'outsider' groups and space. The book is essential reading for national and local policy makers, those interested in human rights, social policy and refugee studies, as well as human geographers and sociologists

Computer Science · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Civil rights · Government policy · Great britain · Netherlands · Refugees · Sweden