International refugee law /

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Imprint:Farnham, Surrey England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2010.
Description:xxviii, 525 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:The library of essays in international law
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8141000
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Other authors / contributors:Lambert, Hélène.
ISBN:9780754628132 (cloth : alk. paper)
0754628132 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. xxiv-xxviii) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Historical Perspective
  • 'We refugees'
  • Territorial asylum
  • The end of asylum? The changing nature of refugee policies in Africa
  • A reconsideration of the underlying premise of refugee law
  • UNCHR's contribution to the development of international refugee law: its foundations and evolution
  • The politics of refugee protection
  • Part II. The 1951 Refugee Convention
  • Key Provisions and Implementation: Who is a refugee?
  • Troubled communication: cross-cultural misunderstandings in the asylum-hearing
  • Non-refoulement and the new asylum seekers
  • Revitalizing the 1951 Refugee Convention
  • Part III. Refugee Law and Its Relationship with International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law
  • Refugee law, gender, and the human rights paradigm
  • Seeking asylum under the Convention on the Rights of the Child: a case for complementary protection
  • The cross-fertilization of international humanitarian law and international refugee law
  • Part IV. EU Dimension of Refugee Law
  • The Europeanisation of Europe's asylum policy
  • Is Europe living up to its obligations to refugees?
  • Understanding refugee law in an enlarged European Union
  • Transnational judicial dialogue, harmonization and the common European asylum system
  • Part V. Challenges and Perspectives on the Future
  • Reforming the international refugee regime: a dialogic model
  • Free movement and the world order
  • Human security and the rights of refugees: transcending territorial and disciplinary borders