Colonial legacies and the asylum system : language, silence and the portrayal of the refugee 'other'
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is often presented either as a post-Second World War institution, or a Cold-War institution, but its origins within colonialism are rarely discussed. However, the UNHCR and the 1951 Refugee Convention are products of the colonial era. This th...
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Aberystwyth University
2014
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| Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.659083 |