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Another brick in the wall? neo-Rrfoulement and the externalizat / Hyndman, Jennifer; Mountz, Alison

Hyndman, Jennifer	Journal Article
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2008.

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Insecurity and fear in the global North produce political space to advance security measures, including the externalization of asylum. States in the global North make it increasingly difficult for asylum seekers to reach sovereign territory where they might make a refugee claim. While legal protection remains intact under the Refugee Convention, extra-legal measures employ geography to restrict access to asylum and keep claimants at bay through a variety of tactics. This article probes the ways in which fear of uninvited asylum seekers is securitized and looks at the tactics utilized to keep them at bay, far from the borders of states that are signatories to the UN Refugee Convention. Drawing on research in Europe and Australia, we demonstrate how states are promoting 'protection in regions of origin' through practices of de facto neo-refoulement. Neo-refoulement refers to a geographically based strategy of preventing asylum by restricting access to territories that, in principle, provide protection to refugees

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Migration ; Refugee ; United Nations

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Diaspora Geopolitics in Toronto: Tamil Nationalism and the Aftermath of War in Sri Lanka / Hyndman, Jennifer; Amarasingam, Amarnath; Naganathan, Gayathri

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During the mid to late 1980s tens of thousands of Tamils from Sri Lanka sought and got asylum in Canada, forging the basis of the sizeable diaspora today. The Canadian state granted overwhelmingly positive decisions to Tamil refugee claimants based on evidence that the Government of Sri Lanka colluded in systematic violence against and killing of Tamil civilians who were not part of the militant separatist rebel group known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Canada continues to accept a majority of Tamil asylum seekers today, and hosts diaspora geopolitics – a less state-centric politics among diaspora members – ‘from below’.

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Tamil Nationalism ; Diaspora Geopolitics in Toronto ; War in Sri Lanka

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