International refugee law and socio-economic rights : refuge from deprivation /

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Author / Creator:	Foster, Michelle, 1972- author.
Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Description:	1 online resource (xlvii, 387 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in international and comparative law ; 51 Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996) ; 51.
Subject:	Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees -- (1951 July 28) Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. Asylum, Right of. Human rights. Migrant labor -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12598641

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Varying Form of Title:	International Refugee Law & Socio-Economic Rights
ISBN:	9780511493980 (ebook) 9780521870177 (hardback) 9780521133364 (paperback)
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Summary:	A range of emerging refugee claims is beginning to challenge the boundaries of the Refugee Convention regime and question traditional distinctions between 'economic migrants' and 'political refugees'. This book, first published in 2007, identifies the conceptual and analytical challenges presented by claims based on socio-economic deprivation, and undertakes an assessment of the extent to which these challenges may be overcome by a creative interpretation of the Refugee Convention, consistent with correct principles of international treaty interpretation. The central argument is that, notwithstanding the dichotomy between 'economic migrants' and 'political refugees', the Refugee Convention is capable of accommodating a more complex analysis which recognizes that many claims based on socio-economic deprivation are indeed properly considered within the purview of the Refugee Convention. This, the first book to consider these issues, will be of great interest to refugee law scholars, advocates, decision-makers and non-governmental organizations.
Other form:	Print version: 9780521870177

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