Immigration and Refugee Law in Russia

Immigration and Refugee Law in Russia

Author: Agnieszka Kubal

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-04-11

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1108417892

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How do immigration and refugee laws work 'in action' in Russia? This book offers a complex, empirical and nuanced understanding.


Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes

Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes

Author: Rustamjon Urinboyev

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2020-12-01

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 0520299574

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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. While migration has become an all-important topic of discussion around the globe, mainstream literature on migrants' legal adaptation and integration has focused on case studies of immigrant communities in Western-style democracies. We know relatively little about how migrants adapt to a new legal environment in the ever-growing hybrid political regimes that are neither clearly democratic nor conventionally authoritarian. This book takes up the case of Russia—an archetypal hybrid political regime and the third largest recipients of migrants worldwide—and investigates how Central Asian migrant workers produce new forms of informal governance and legal order. Migrants use the opportunities provided by a weak rule-of-law and a corrupt political system to navigate the repressive legal landscape and to negotiate—using informal channels—access to employment and other opportunities that are hard to obtain through the official legal framework of their host country. This lively ethnography presents new theoretical perspectives for studying immigrant legal incorporation in similar political contexts.


Migration, Refugee Policy, and State Building in Postcommunist Europe

Migration, Refugee Policy, and State Building in Postcommunist Europe

Author: Oxana Shevel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-10-24

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1139502336

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Why do similar postcommunist states respond differently to refugees? Why do some states privilege certain refugee groups, while other states do not? This book presents a theory to account for this puzzle, and it centers on the role of the politics of nation-building and of the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). A key finding of the book is that when the boundaries of a nation are contested (and thus there is no consensus on which group should receive preferential treatment in state policies), a political space for a receptive and nondiscriminatory refugee policy opens up. The book speaks to the broader questions of how nationalism matters after communism and under what conditions and through what mechanisms international actors can influence domestic polices. The analysis is based on extensive primary research the author conducted in four languages in the Czech Republic, Poland, Russia and Ukraine.


Russian Citizenship

Russian Citizenship

Author: Eric Lohr

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2012-10-31

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0674067800

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In the first book to trace the Russian state’s citizenship policy throughout its history, Lohr argues that to understand the citizenship dilemmas Russia faces today, we must return to the less xenophobic and isolationist pre-Stalin period—before the drive toward autarky after 1914 eventually sealed the state off from Europe.


UN Global Compacts

UN Global Compacts

Author: Nicholas R. Micinski

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-04-28

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 1000376591

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UN Global Compacts is a concise introduction to the key concepts, issues, and actors in global migration governance and presents a comprehensive analysis of the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, the Global Compact on Refugees, and the Global Compact for Migration. The book places the declaration and compacts within their historical context, traces the evolution of global migration governance, and evaluates the implementation of the compacts. Ultimately, the global compacts were the result of three wider shifts in global governance from hard to soft law, from rights to aid, and from Cold War politics to nationalism. The book is an important contribution to international relations and migration studies and provides essential information on the NY declaration and the global compacts, in addition to an examination of the: • Negotiating blocs and strategies • Populist backlash to the Global Compact for Migration • Responsibility sharing for refugee protection • Human rights of migrants • Principle of non-refoulement • Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework • UNHCR, IOM, and the UN Network on Migration The book will be of interest to practitioners, students, and scholars of international cooperation, global governance, migrants, and refugees, and will be essential reading for graduate and undergraduate courses on international law, international organizations, and migration.


A Right to Flee

A Right to Flee

Author: Phil Orchard

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-10-09

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1107076250

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This book examines the origins and evolution of refugee protection over the past four centuries.


The Law of Refugee Status

The Law of Refugee Status

Author: James C. Hathaway

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-07-03

Total Pages: 777

ISBN-13: 1107012511

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The long-awaited second edition of this seminal text, reconceived as a critical analysis of the world's leading comparative asylum jurisprudence.


Making People Illegal

Making People Illegal

Author: Catherine Dauvergne

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-04-14

Total Pages: 21

ISBN-13: 0521895081

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Immigration and Refugee Law in Russia

Immigration and Refugee Law in Russia

Author: Agnieszka Kubal

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781108405980

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Immigration and Refugee Law in Russia confronts the issue of access to justice and the realisation of human rights for migrants and refugees in Russia. It focuses on everyday experiences of immigration and refugee laws and how they work 'in action' in Russia. This investigation presupposes that the reality is much more complex than is generally assumed, as it is mediated by peoples' varied positionalities. Agnieszka Kubal's primary focus is on people, their stories and experiences: migrants, asylum seekers, refugees, immigration lawyers, Russian judges, and the Federal Migration Service officers. These actors speak with different voices, profess different ideologies, and hold opposite worldviews; what they hold in common is their importance to our understanding of migration processes. By this focus on individual views and opinions, Kubal highlights the complexity and nuance of everyday experiences of the law, breaking away from the portrayal of Russia as a legal and ideological monolith.