Open AccessThe Mouse That Roared
Author(s) -
Howard Adelman
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
refuge
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1920-7336
pISSN - 0229-5113
DOI - 10.25071/1920-7336.21543
Subject(s) - refugee , legislation , legislature , government (linguistics) , affect (linguistics) , political science , business , law , psychology , philosophy , linguistics , communication
A government study shows that new legislation which has been opposed so stronglyand for so long by the refugee' support community and has been pushed just as stubbornlyand uncompromisingly by the government,will, in fact, have little impact onreducing the number of refugee daims. The return to a safe third country will affect,at the most optimistic estimate, 10 percent of daimants and, likely, far fewer. Further,the numbers of claimants would probably have been reduced by twice as much if legislativemeasures had been introduced which had the support of most refugee supportgroups.