Scott Ford Entangled Asylum in the Nordic Region

Legal Sociology and Human Rights
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5292-4203-4
Verlag: Bristol University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Global Migration and Social Change

What happens when international human rights norms confront the practical realities of asylum decision-making?

This book offers a bold examination of how institutional dynamics and human rights oversight shape the intricate mechanisms behind asylum adjudication. By framing asylum law as an ‘entangled regime’, the author uncovers how national decision-makers interpret, apply, and contest norms of national, international, and institutional origin, offering invaluable insights into the evolving landscape of migrants’ rights.

Through this socio-legal lens, it focuses on the Nordic countries – a region with a long history of compliance but increasingly marked by anti-immigrant politics and policy experimentation. As political pressures bear down against decades of rights-focused legal consolidation, a critical testing ground emerges where international law faces some of its most rigorous challenges.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scott Ford, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Rechtssoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Entangled Asylum

2. Human Rights Law in Asylum Adjudication

Part 1: International Legal Regimes

3. A Genealogy of Entangled Asylum

4. The Emergence of a Legal Battlefield

Part 2: Nordic States

5. Why the Nordics?

6. The Nordic Migration Cases

7. Under the Radar: The Broader Effects of International Oversight

Part 3: Institutional Sites

8. Balancing Law and Politics in the Asylum Architecture

9. Brokering Human Rights Law in Asylum Appeals

10. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Scott Ford, Sarah
Sarah Scott Ford is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Mobile Centre of Excellence for Global Mobility Law at the University of Copenhagen.

Sarah Scott Ford is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Mobile Centre of Excellence for Global Mobility Law at the University of Copenhagen.