Product Description: The Ashgate Research Companion to Migration Law, Theory and Policy complements the already successful Ashgate series Law & Migration, established in 2006 which now has a number of well-regarded monographs to its credit. The purpose of this Companion is to augment that Series, by taking stock of the current state of literature on migration law, theory and policy, and to sketch out the contours of its future long-term development, in what is now a vastly expanded research agenda...read more

Product Description: Immigration law and policy is so controversial and contested that major legislation has been passed every three years since 1993, with three Bills in the last four years alone. None, however, has been more major and controversial than the latest installment, the Asylum  Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc...read more

Product Description: This text provides a detailed account of the development of modern immigration and nationality laws of the UK and their impact upon the rights of the individual. It brings together laws since the turn of the century with questions about law-making in a democratic society: how it affects the individual, defines and re-defines the nation and the body politic, and how the laws determine the particular approach of administrative bodies and officials...read more