@article{2016:neuberger:contempora,
title = {Contemporary Asylum Policies between Human Rights Advocacy and Responsibility Outsourcing: the Cases of Australia and Canada},
year = {2016},
note = {Governments often walk a fine line between measures designed to
decrease the ‘spontaneous’ influx of asylum seekers and their
attempts to avoid credibility losses as human rights advocates. Recent
developments in Australia and Canada show that their governments have
been relying on the following interrelated strategies that allow them
to partially solve the resulting consistency problem: (1) Using
refugee resettlement to present themselves as protectors of the right
to asylum, while (2) trying to impede ‘spontaneous arrivals’
through strict border regimes and harsh conditions aiming at
deterrence, and at the same time (3) distancing themselves from the
implementation of related measures. The findings of this article
indicate that, by delegating morally questionable tasks and thus
outsourcing responsibility for the ‘dirty work’, the governments
of both Australia and Canada attempt to avoid loss of image and
balance their humanitarian obligations with policies - more or less
explicitly - aiming at controlling and decreasing the admission of
asylum seekers.},
journal = {S&F Sicherheit und Frieden},
pages = {29--37},
author = {Neuberger, Lorenz},
volume = {34},
number = {1}
}