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Part 1 places asylum in its historical context, covering the period from the 12th to the later 20th century.

UK Asylum Law and Poli. Part 2 concentrates on contemporary UK and EU asylum and refugee law, assessing the four major statutes enacted between 1993 and 2002. It discusses the role of Home Office policy in the exclusion and inclusion of asylum seekers and considers some key judgments in the asylum field. The book concludes with an overview of the harmonisation of asylum at the EU level, assessing the influence of EU initiatives on municipal law and exploring some of the tensions in UK policy between unilateralism and co-operation, liberalism and restrictionism.

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For an overview of British practice historically, see Stevens, UK Asylum Law and Policy, ch.

Holmes, Colin, John Bull's Island: Immigration and British Society, 1871–1971 (London: Macmillan, 1988); and Stevens, Dallal, UK Asylum Law and Policy: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (London: Sweet and Maxwell, 2004), 19–32. 7. Aliens Act 1905 (5 Edw. VII. c. 13), s. 1(3)(d). 10. Immigration law and refugee law are not synonymous, although in British scholarship as elsewhere, they are often taken to be. Immigration law describes the practice of states in regulating, at their discretion, the admission and removal of non-citizens to and from their territory. For an overview of British practice historically, see Stevens, UK Asylum Law and Policy, ch. 1.

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