The Rights of Refugees under International Law

The Rights of Refugees under International Law
Author: James C. Hathaway
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1453
Release: 2021-04-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108495893

The only comprehensive analysis of international refugee rights, anchored in the hard facts of refugee life around the world.

The Refugee in International Law

The Refugee in International Law
Author: Guy S. Goodwin-Gill
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 847
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0199281300

Millions of people are forced to flee their homes as a result of various forms of persecution. The instruments to secure international protection are the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol. This book examines challenges to the Convention.

Refugee Protection

Refugee Protection
Author: Kate Jastram
Publisher:
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2001
Genre: Asylum, Right of
ISBN:

2. The role of UNHCR

The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law

The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law
Author: Cathryn Costello
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1337
Release: 2021
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0198848633

This Handbook draws together leading and emerging scholars to provide a comprehensive critical analysis of international refugee law. This book provides an account as well as a critique of the status quo, setting the agenda for future research in the field.

The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
Author: Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 785
Release: 2014-06-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0191645877

Refugee and Forced Migration Studies has grown from being a concern of a relatively small number of scholars and policy researchers in the 1980s to a global field of interest with thousands of students worldwide studying displacement either from traditional disciplinary perspectives or as a core component of newer programmes across the Humanities and Social and Political Sciences. Today the field encompasses both rigorous academic research which may or may not ultimately inform policy and practice, as well as action-research focused on advocating in favour of refugees' needs and rights. This authoritative Handbook critically evaluates the birth and development of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, and analyses the key contemporary and future challenges faced by academics and practitioners working with and for forcibly displaced populations around the world. The 52 state-of-the-art chapters, written by leading academics, practitioners, and policymakers working in universities, research centres, think tanks, NGOs and international organizations, provide a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the key intellectual, political, social and institutional challenges arising from mass displacement in the world today. The chapters vividly illustrate the vibrant and engaging debates that characterize this rapidly expanding field of research and practice.

Refuge from Inhumanity? War Refugees and International Humanitarian Law

Refuge from Inhumanity? War Refugees and International Humanitarian Law
Author: David Cantor
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2014-07-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004261591

This book contributes to a long-standing but ever topical debate about whether persons fleeing war to seek asylum in another country – ‘war refugees’ – are protected by international law. It seeks to add to this debate by bringing together a detailed set of analyses examining the extent to which the application of international humanitarian law (IHL) may usefully advance the legal protection of such persons. This generates a range of questions about the respective protection frameworks established under international refugee law and IHL and, specifically, the potential for interaction between them. As the first collection to deal with the subject, the eighteen chapters that make up this unique volume supply a range of perspectives on how the relationship between these two separate fields of law may be articulated and whether IHL may contribute to providing refuge from the inhumanity of war.

Evaluating the Effectiveness of International Refugee Law

Evaluating the Effectiveness of International Refugee Law
Author: M. R. Alborzi
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2006
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004152512

This book is an evaluation of the international response to a major protracted humanitarian situation. As such, it is the first comprehensive account and assessment of the effectiveness of international law in dealing with Iraqi refugees during the regime of Saddam Hussein.

The Arc of Protection

The Arc of Protection
Author: T. Alexander Aleinikoff
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1503611426

The international refugee regime is fundamentally broken. Designed in the wake of World War II to provide protection and assistance, the system is unable to address the record numbers of persons displaced by conflict and violence today. States have put up fences and adopted policies to deny, deter, and detain asylum seekers. People recognized as refugees are routinely denied rights guaranteed by international law. The results are dismal for the millions of refugees around the world who are left with slender prospects to rebuild their lives or contribute to host communities. T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Leah Zamore lay bare the underlying global crisis of responsibility. The Arc of Protection adopts a revisionist and critical perspective that examines the original premises of the international refugee regime. Aleinikoff and Zamore identify compromises at the founding of the system that attempted to balance humanitarian ideals and sovereign control of their borders by states. This book offers a way out of the current international morass through refocusing on responsibility-sharing, seeing the humanitarian-development divide in a new light, and putting refugee rights front and center.

International Refugee Law

International Refugee Law
Author: Hne Lambert
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 554
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351562215

The essays selected and reproduced in this volume explore how international refugee law is dynamic and constantly evolving. From an instrument designed to protect mostly those civilians fleeing the worse excesses of World War II, the 1951 Refugee Convention has developed into a set of principles, customary rules, and values that are now firmly embedded in the human rights framework, and are applicable to a far broader range of refugees. In addition, international refugee law has been affected by international humanitarian law and international criminal law (and vice versa). Thus, there is a reinforcing dynamic in the development of these complementary areas of law. At the same time, in recent decades states have shown a renewed interest in managing migration, thereby raising issues of how to reconcile such interests with refugee protection principles. In addition, the emergence of concepts of participation and responsibility to protect promise to have an impact on international refugee law.

Exclusion from Protection as a Refugee

Exclusion from Protection as a Refugee
Author: Yao Li
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2017-09-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 900434974X

In Exclusion from Protection as a Refugee, Yao Li analyses Article 1F of the 1951 Refugee Convention. She argues that the exclusion clause is a quasi-punitive provision and must therefore be interpreted with due regard to (International) Criminal Law. Having developed an interpretation approach to consider external legal notions, Li provides a solution for all the relevant issues in the context of Article 1F, based on a “harmonizing interpretation”. The study therefore not only comprehensively examines the exclusion clause at the intersection of International Refugee Law and International Criminal Law, but also contributes to anti-fragmentation efforts in International Law.