Theodore E. Gildred Chair in U.S.-Mexican Relations, Professor of Sociology, and Co-Director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, the University of California, San Diego

Migration

Remote Control of Asylum Seekers

How States Evade their Protection Obligation

December 17, 2019 • by David Scott FitzGerald

Zolberg observed that regulating migration at the port of embarkation abroad “is now so familiar that we tend to underestimate its radically innovative character and its fundamental importance in regulating world-wide movement.” In Refuge Beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers, I show how modern remote control has become a ...

Toward a New International Refugee Regime

The Arc of Protection identifies major shifts in the international refugee regime, diagnoses current problems, and proposes principles to undergird reforms. The book seeks to renegotiate the existing “grand bargain” between the global South and the global North, in which the global South keeps most refugees bottled up in return for ...

David Scott FitzGerald

Remote Control of Asylum Seekers

How States Evade their Protection Obligation

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Toward a New International Refugee Regime

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