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This book focuses on the history of women under British immigration, nationality and refugee law and on the campaigns to give women independent status and equal rights under these laws. It shows how immigration law has worked to prevent women living in Britain from bringing their husbands to join them and impeded women abroad from joining their husbands in Britain. The immigration law's assumption that women are dependents has restricted them from making independent family life choices and brought particular hardship on lone mothers who want their children to be able to join them in Britain. It takes no account of the thousands of women who entered Britain as independent workers. British national laws are compared to those of the European Community which, though they have more generous family reunion provisions, are also seen as discriminatory, the discrimination in Europe being based on nationality rather than gender. The final chapter of the book concentrates on women refugee issues, highlighting the fact that the 1951 Geneva Convention does not include gender as ground of persecution in determining refugee status. Written from a feminist perspective, this account of the denial o

Author

Bhabha, Jacqueline, Shutter, Sue, Bhabha, Jaqueline

Publisher

Trentham Books Ltd; Trentham Books

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9781858560076