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Abstract

Each year refugees transit southern EU Member States (MS), where in theory they should claim asylum, but where in reality they have little chance of being able to make a claim, and almost no chance of having it examined properly, much less being actually granted asylum. This paper argues that the current EU regime turns some refugees into undocumented migrants – ‘illegal migrants’ in political and public discourse and shields EU MS from their international legal obligations. The article illustrates the effect of EU asylum policy through a case study of a group of young Afghan men in Paris.

Publication Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Ethnic and Racial Studies on 18 Jan 2011, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01419870.2010.535550
Publisher Keywords:	Asylum seekers, Afghans, Dublin II, Eurodac, France, Greece
Subjects:	J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
Departments:	School of Policy & Global Affairs > Sociology & Criminology
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SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

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