Download or read book Refuge in the Land of Liberty written by Greg Burgess and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-02-14 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines changing responses towards refugees in modern France through French legal, intellectual, political and social history. Critical questions framed debates and policy: whether individuals had a natural human right to receive asylum and whether refugee policy was a matter for national government, or international agreement.