Copies of Territorial Asylum and Refugees in Orbit, plus other material on country of first asylum principle
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 30 January 1990 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | ZZZ3890 |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Copies of Territorial Asylum and Refugees in Orbit, plus other material on country of first asylum principle, 30 January 1990, ZZZ3890, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ab1584.html [accessed 25 May 2023] |
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As communicated by telephone, the abovementioned books could not be found among Ottawa libraries, including the IRBDC Headquarters' Documentation Centre. However, an Inter-library system search pointed out that Territorial Asylum is available at the Vancouver Public Library.
Material relating to the country of first asylum principle attached to this response includes:
-Adelman, Howard, "Refuge or Asylum: A Philosophical Perspective", in Journal of Refugee Studies, Vol.1 No.1 1988, pp. 7-19;
-Book review of The New Asylum Seekers: Refugee Law in the 1980's (on order, not yet available at the IRBDC-Ottawa), in the Human Rights Quarterly, August 1989, pp. 476-478.
The following contain discussions or references to the application working of the first asylum principle in Europe (1985 and 1988) and an example of first asylum in The Philippines (1981):
-"First Asylum And Resettlement In Western Europe", in World Refugee Report 1985, (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of State, September 1985), p. 67;
-"Human Deterrence: The Pre-Asylum Period in Europe", in INSCAN, (Ottawa: Research Resource Division for Refugees), May 1988, pp. 1, 3;
-"A Camp of First Asylum", in Journal of Refugee Resettlement, (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services), August 1981, pp. 34-42.
