- Hardcover: 416 pages
- Publisher: Doubleday Canada (April 5 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0385662548
- ISBN-13: 978-0385662543
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 658 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #158,509 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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“Andy Lamey tackles this timely and critical debate with an intellect and a passion that are formidable. Frontier Justice could, quiet possibly, have a lasting effect on policy in Canada and elsewhere.”
—The Globe and Mail
"Compulsively readable, at times heartbreaking and super-smart."
—Jeet Heer, literary journalist
"A book that pulses with intellectual curiosity and energy . . . a calm, lucid voice in a a debate often sidetracked by terrorist panic and hypocrisy about human rights."
—The Chronicle Herald (Halifax)
"Despite its grounding in political theory and legal history, this is not a political-science textbook. Lamey introduces the reader to real refugees, offering portraits, for example, of Haitians detained at Guantanamo Bay before and during the Clinton administration. There are even sections where the book becomes a page-turner."
—The Ottawa Citizen
"Frontier Justice provides what the debate over asylum and refugee claims so desperately needs: fresh thinking and historical perspective. Here is a wonderful writer tackling a subject, and a debate, as big as his talent."
—Paul Wells, Maclean's columnist
“[A] superb and immensely readable work …”
—Doug Saunders, Literary Review of Canada
"Andy Lamey has produced a persuasive argument for changes to refugee systems around the world."
—The Winnipeg Free Press
—The Globe and Mail
"Compulsively readable, at times heartbreaking and super-smart."
—Jeet Heer, literary journalist
"A book that pulses with intellectual curiosity and energy . . . a calm, lucid voice in a a debate often sidetracked by terrorist panic and hypocrisy about human rights."
—The Chronicle Herald (Halifax)
"Despite its grounding in political theory and legal history, this is not a political-science textbook. Lamey introduces the reader to real refugees, offering portraits, for example, of Haitians detained at Guantanamo Bay before and during the Clinton administration. There are even sections where the book becomes a page-turner."
—The Ottawa Citizen
"Frontier Justice provides what the debate over asylum and refugee claims so desperately needs: fresh thinking and historical perspective. Here is a wonderful writer tackling a subject, and a debate, as big as his talent."
—Paul Wells, Maclean's columnist
“[A] superb and immensely readable work …”
—Doug Saunders, Literary Review of Canada
"Andy Lamey has produced a persuasive argument for changes to refugee systems around the world."
—The Winnipeg Free Press
Product Description
Frontier Justice is a gripping, eye-opening exploration of the world-wide refugee crisis. Combining reporting, history and political philosophy, Andy Lamey sets out to explain the story behind the radical increase in the global number of asylum-seekers, and the effects of North America and Europe’s increasing unwillingness to admit them.
He follows the extraordinary efforts of a set of Yale law students who sued the U.S. government on behalf of a group of refugees imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay; he recounts one refugee family's harrowing journey from Saddam Hussein's Iraq to contemporary Australia via the world's most dangerous ocean crossing; and he explores the fascinating case of Ahmed Ressam, the so-called Millennium bomber who filed a refugee claim in Canada before attempting to blow up the Los Angeles airport. Lamey casts new light on a host of broader subjects, from the reasons why terrorists who pose as refugees have an overwhelming failure rate to the hidden benefits of multiculturalism.
Throughout Lamey's account, he focuses on the rights of people in search of asylum, and how those rights are routinely violated. But Frontier Justice does not merely point out problems. This book offers a bold case for an original solution to the international asylum crisis, one which draws upon Canada's unique approach to asylum-seekers. At the centre of the book is a new blueprint for how the rights of refugees might be enforced, and a vision of human rights that is ultimately optimistic and deeply affirmative.
In exploring one of the most pressing questions of our age, Lamey provides an absorbing and unsettling look at a world in which, as he notes, there are many rights for citizens, few for human beings.
He follows the extraordinary efforts of a set of Yale law students who sued the U.S. government on behalf of a group of refugees imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay; he recounts one refugee family's harrowing journey from Saddam Hussein's Iraq to contemporary Australia via the world's most dangerous ocean crossing; and he explores the fascinating case of Ahmed Ressam, the so-called Millennium bomber who filed a refugee claim in Canada before attempting to blow up the Los Angeles airport. Lamey casts new light on a host of broader subjects, from the reasons why terrorists who pose as refugees have an overwhelming failure rate to the hidden benefits of multiculturalism.
Throughout Lamey's account, he focuses on the rights of people in search of asylum, and how those rights are routinely violated. But Frontier Justice does not merely point out problems. This book offers a bold case for an original solution to the international asylum crisis, one which draws upon Canada's unique approach to asylum-seekers. At the centre of the book is a new blueprint for how the rights of refugees might be enforced, and a vision of human rights that is ultimately optimistic and deeply affirmative.
In exploring one of the most pressing questions of our age, Lamey provides an absorbing and unsettling look at a world in which, as he notes, there are many rights for citizens, few for human beings.
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Eye-opening!, Sep 27 2011
By Julie Ewald - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Frontier Justice: The Global Refugee Crisis and What To Do About It (Hardcover)
Andy Lamey's "Frontier Justice" is a heart-breaking book. While I don't know anyone who would say that life for refugees would be easy, refugee life seems to be a particular sort of horrific, something that Lamey paints for readers without being lurid. Lamey does a brilliant job illustrating the humanitarian problems that arise because of how refugees are treated by governments and by regular citizens around the world.This is a well-written, well-thought out, very thorough book. Lamey does a fantastic job of laying out evidence so that he isn't only appealing to people's hearts when talking about what can be such a charged issue. He lays everything out in a logical, smart way that really appeals to a reader's higher intellect. At the same time, his writing style is very smart and compelling; it isn't too often that I have had a non-fiction book that was also non-memoir that I had a lot of trouble putting down.
Frontier Justice: The Global Refugee Crisis and What To Do About It
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Really absorbing read!, Feb 29 2012
By Taylor Bennett - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Frontier Justice: The Global Refugee Crisis and What To Do About It (Hardcover)
I just stumbled across this book and I was surprised by how much it held my interest. Andy Lamey writes in a very captivating manner. He tells personal stories from refugees around the world and the book often reads like a novel or a legal thriller. This book would be an exciting read even for readers like me with no prior interest in refugees.He tells stories about people trying to seek asylum in the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe:
* There are two chapters on Haitians seeking safety in the US, and the intrepid Yale law students who rallied to their side despite facing huge odds, and launched a major legal challenge on their behalf which went all the way to the Supreme Court.
* There is an extremely powerful chapter on an Iraqi refugee seeking asylum in Australia, and his harrowing personal journey.
* There is a chapter exploding the myth of terrorists posing as refugees to enter North America. It turns out that terrorists who pose as a refugees have a significantly higher capture rate than terrorists who try to reach North America in other ways.
* There are also dramatic stories from other parts of the world, including Germany, Japan and Israel. For instance, he discusses the rise and fall of the "right to asylum" in Germany, and why this model is flawed. Andy Lamey proposes his own framework for fairly dealing with refugees, which he calls the portable-procedural model. I found his model extremely convincing and policy-makers or those with an interest in refugees should definitely take note.
In all, this is a really captivating book to read, even if you have never thought to read a book about refugees. It is truly eye-opening, engaging and well-written.
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