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  2. Asylums (book) - Wikipedia

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    Based on his participant observation field work (he was employed as a physical therapist's assistant under a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health at a mental institution in Washington, D.C.), Goffman details his theory of the "total institution" (principally in the example he gives, as the title of the book indicates, mental institutions) and the process by which it takes efforts ...

  3. Asylum (McGrath novel) - Wikipedia

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    The asylum wants to keep this potentially scandalous situation out of the papers but informs the police. At first Stella enjoys the underground art life but Edgar starts to become violent and jealous as he sculpts a rather morbid bust of her head. He thinks she wants to go back to Max and fears being poisoned by her.

  4. Asylum in the United States - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Other people enter the United States with or without inspection, and apply for asylum under section 1158. [3] Asylum in the United States has two specific requirements. First, asylum applicants must be physically present in the United States, or at a designated port of arrival. [4]

  5. UN migration, refugee agencies cite 'fundamental' right to ...

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    The U.N.'s migration and refugee agencies expressed concern over Biden administration plans for new asylum restrictions in the United States and said the right to asylum is fundamental.

  6. Sanctuary movement - Wikipedia

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    Thornburgh, that international law did not apply and the government did not violate Sanctuary members' First Amendment rights, the movement won the public's sympathies and the government eventually granted asylum status to many of the refugees involved in the trial.

  7. Abstraction (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    The issue with associating a concrete definition to the term sociological abstraction, is that there is no universally accepted definition. Although the earliest form of abstraction in sociology was discussed by sociologist Talcott Parsons in the 1950s, his work in The Social System (1951) failed to identify an exact definition. Rather, he ...

  8. Asylum Act (Switzerland) - Wikipedia

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    The Asylum Act (AsylA) [a] is a Swiss federal law that governs the country's procedures for granting asylum to refugees. It was adopted on 26 June 1998 by the Federal Assembly and came into force on 1 October 1999. [1] It replaces the previous and first Asylum Act from 1981. [2] The Asylum Act lays down the legal framework for Switzerland's ...

  9. Category:Right of asylum - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Right of asylum" ... This page was last edited on 2 July 2020, at 02:02 (UTC).