Reconsidering the asylum lottery: Refugee determination and the structure of luck (Record no. 532052)
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| Personal name | Marshall, Emma |
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| Title | Reconsidering the asylum lottery: Refugee determination and the structure of luck |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Social and Legal Studies |
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| Extent | 34(6), Dec, 2025: p.791-813 |
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| Summary, etc | An influential body of legal scholarship suggests that luck plays a role in determining who gets refugee status where legal processes operate as a ‘roulette’ or ‘lottery’. These metaphors act as a powerful way of signalling how systems of justice produce unfair outcomes, but scholarship on refugee law has, to date, paid little attention to date on how luck functions as a concept. Drawing from other disciplinary approaches to conceptualising luck, this article uses empirical research on access to immigration advice in England to develop a more critical approach to luck. The findings demonstrate how experiences of luck within immigration systems are connected to structural inequalities and other factors that are often produced by – and can be addressed through – policy decisions. I argue that, as legal scholars, we need to be cautious about accepting individual narratives of luck at face value, because luck implies a lack of control and can therefore work to obscure these more structural issues. Paying closer attention to how experiences of luck are produced and structured by legal processes can, however, also help to expand the conceptual tools that we use to work towards fairer systems of justice.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09646639241312092 |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Asylum, Legal aid, Lick, Refugee determination, Structural inequalities. |
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| Main entry heading | Social and Legal Studies |
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| Indian Institute of Public Administration | Indian Institute of Public Administration | 2025-12-02 | 34(6), Dec, 2025: p.791-813 | AR137692 | 2025-12-02 | Articles |