Format:
1 online resource (176 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781849640169
Content:
'Well-written and easily accessible. It should be of interest to anyone in the field of Irish studies or the braoder issue of political prisoners.' Political Studies.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1History -- Safe Haven -- Non-Intervention by the Executive Branch -- Summary -- 2 Deportation and Other Immigration Controls -- US Immigration Policies -- Visitor Visas -- Refugees and Foreign Policy -- Political Asylum -- Recent Struggles for Refuge: Selected Cases -- Summary -- 3 Extradition -- Extradition Warrants: 1977 to 1986 -- Amendments to the Political Offence Exception -- Summary -- 4 Prosecution -- Selected Cases -- Other Sources of Weaponry -- Summary -- 5 Media Caricatures -- The British Line -- Images of Ceasefire -- Media Distortions of the Perpetrators of Violence -- Media Distortions Relating to the Victims of Violence -- Summary -- 6 The Facade of Neutrality -- The Clinton Era -- Human Rights and Foreign Policy -- US Support for Violations of Due Process -- Terrorist List -- Summary -- Conclusion -- Political Offences versus Terrorism -- Shift in US Policy -- Support and Publicity -- References -- Case Cited -- Statutes Cited -- Appendices -- Research Context and Background -- Table 1 Murder victims of Loyalist violence, 1996 to 1999, during alleged loyalist ceasefire -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Appendices -- Name Index -- Index -- African Americans -- 6 -- 47 n.3 -- Media portrayals in the United States 99 -- Processed by criminal justice system in the United States 99 -- Alpha 66-7 -- Ancient Order of Hibernians 31 -- Anglo-Irish Agreement -- 51 n.9 -- 51 -- Anti-immigrant sentiment 22 -- Aryan Nations 66 -- Bloody Sunday -- 16 n.11 -- 16 -- 37 -- 88 -- 120 -- Boer War 10 -- Boston -- 3 70 -- 71 -- British Foreign Office -- 118 -- 119 -- British Information Service 86 -- Ceasefires -- Cover names 91 -- Fundraising and 121.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780745313221
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780745313221
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=3386062
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