E-book
Frontier justice : the global refugee crisis and what to do about it / Andy Lamey.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307367921 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0307367924 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 pages)
- Publisher: Canada : Doubleday Canada [2011]
- Copyright: ©2011
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The philosopher in exile -- American Lavalas -- A floating Berlin wall -- The fatal shore -- Raising the castle -- An asylum made of thoughts -- The right to have rights -- The legend of Ahmed Ressam -- In the tracks of Leviathan -- Postscript: Refugees and terror. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Refugees. Political refugees. Refugees > Civil rights. Human rights. Asylum, Right of. Asylum, Right of. Human rights. Political refugees. Refugees. Refugees > Civil rights. |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
Electronic resources
- Random House, Inc.
Frontier Justice is a gripping, eye-opening exploration of the world-wide refugee crisis. Combining reporting, history and political philosophy, Andy Lamey sets out to explain the story behind the radical increase in the global number of asylum-seekers, and the effects of North America and Europeâs increasing unwillingness to admit them.
He follows the extraordinary efforts of a set of Yale law students who sued the U.S. government on behalf of a group of refugees imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay; he recounts one refugee family's harrowing journey from Saddam Hussein's Iraq to contemporary Australia via the world's most dangerous ocean crossing; and he explores the fascinating case of Ahmed Ressam, the so-called Millennium bomber who filed a refugee claim in Canada before attempting to blow up the Los Angeles airport. Lamey casts new light on a host of broader subjects, from the reasons why terrorists who pose as refugees have an overwhelming failure rate to the hidden benefits of multiculturalism.
Throughout Lamey's account, he focuses on the rights of people in search of asylum, and how those rights are routinely violated. But Frontier Justice does not merely point out problems. This book offers a bold case for an original solution to the international asylum crisis, one which draws upon Canada's unique approach to asylum-seekers. At the centre of the book is a new blueprint for how the rights of refugees might be enforced, and a vision of human rights that is ultimately optimistic and deeply affirmative.
In exploring one of the most pressing questions of our age, Lamey provides an absorbing and unsettling look at a world in which, as he notes, there are many rights for citizens, few for human beings.
