Forced Migration, Human Rights and Security, Studies in International Law Volume 17

✍ Scribed by Jane McAdam

• Publisher: Hart Publishing (UK)
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 317
• Series: Studies in International Law volume Volume 17
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The international protection regime for refugees and other forced migrants seems increasingly at risk as measures designed to enhance security — of borders, of people, of institutions, and of national identity — encroach upon human rights. This timely edited collection responds to some of the contemporary challenges faced by the international protection regime, with a particular focus on the human rights of those who are displaced. The book begins by assessing the impact of anti-terrorism laws on refugee status, both at the international and domestic levels, before turning to examine the function of offshore immigration control mechanisms and extraterritorial processing on asylum seekers' access to territory and entitlements — both procedural and substantive. It considers: the particular needs and rights of children, especially as forced migrants; the role of human rights law in protecting religious minorities in the context of debates about national identity; the approaches of refugee decision-makers in assessing the credibility of evidence; and the scope for an international judicial commission to provide consistent interpretative guidance on refugee law, so as to overcome — or at least diminish — the currently diverse and sometimes conflicting approaches of national courts. The last part of the book examines the status of people who benefit from 'complementary protection' — such as those who cannot be removed from a country because they face a risk of torture; cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment; or punishment — and the scope for the broader concept of the 'responsibility to protect' to address gaps in the international protection regime.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
......Page 1
Introduction
......Page 2
Studies in International Law......Page 3
Title Page
......Page 6
ISBN: 9781841137704......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Editor’s Note......Page 9
List of Contributors......Page 10
I. REFUGEES AND SECURITY......Page 16
II. REFUGEES, PROTECTION AND SECURITY......Page 18
III. REFUGEES AND NATIONAL SECURITY......Page 21
IV. REFUGEES AND THE RULE OF LAW......Page 26
I. INTRODUCTION......Page 34
II. RESOLUTION 1373 AND ITS DRAFTING HISTORY......Page 38
III. THEORETICAL RAMIFICATIONS OF A SHIFT TO ARTICLE 1F(C)......Page 46
IV. RESOLUTION 1373 IN PRACTICE—FROM PRE-EMPTION TO REFRAMING REFUGEE RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AS COUNTER-TERRORISM......Page 64
V. CONCLUSION......Page 73
I. INTRODUCTION......Page 78
II. THE STATUTORY CONTEXT......Page 82
III. THE ISSUES BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT IN......Page 86
IV. COMPLEMENTARY PROTECTION......Page 90
V. COMMENTARY......Page 94
I. INTRODUCTION......Page 108
II. OFFSHORE BARRIERS TO ASYLUM SEEKER MOVEMENT......Page 109
III. ATTRIBUTION OF CONDUCT......Page 118
IV. THE RELEVANCE OF PLACE TO OBLIGATIONS......Page 121
V. WHAT CONSTITUTES......Page 133
VI. MULTIPLE ACTORS AND THE ALLOCATION OF RESPONSIBILITY......Page 138
VII. CONCLUSION......Page 141
I. INTRODUCTION......Page 144
II. EUROPEAN PROPOSALS FOR EXTRATERRITORIAL PROCESSING IN CONTEXT......Page 148
III. A RE-EXAMINATION OF STC—LEGAL BASES......Page 151
IV. THE ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS......Page 164
V. CONCLUSION......Page 168
I. INTRODUCTION......Page 170
II. LOST CHILDREN......Page 173
III. READING CHILDREN INTO THE REFUGEE CONVENTION......Page 176
IV. CONCLUSION......Page 194
7. Wearing Thin: Restrictions on Islamic Headscarves and Other Religious Symbols......Page 196
I. EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS:......Page 202
II. HOUSE OF LORDS:......Page 214
III. CANADIAN SUPREME COURT:......Page 220
IV. CONCLUSION......Page 226
8. Subjectivity and Refugee Fact-Finding......Page 228
I. INTRODUCTION......Page 240
II. THE NEED FOR CONVERGENCE IN INTERPRETATION......Page 242
III. PROSPECTS FOR FURTHER CONVERGENCE......Page 250
IV. THE PRINCIPLES OF THE PROPOSAL......Page 257
V. THE PROPOSAL......Page 270
VI. CONCLUSION......Page 275
10. in Need of International Protection......Page 278
I. THE INADEQUACY OF ‘NON-REFOULEMENT PLUS
HUMAN RIGHTS LAW’ ALONE
......Page 283
II. THE REFUGEE CONVENTION AS A HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY......Page 285
III. ‘HUMANITARIAN REFUGEES’: ARTICLE 1A(1)......Page 289
IV. RECOMMENDATION ‘E’ OF THE FINAL ACT......Page 290
V. ‘COMPLEMENTARY’ VERSUS ‘SUBSIDIARY’: A FINAL WORD......Page 294
11. The Responsibility to Protect: Closing the Gaps in the International Protection Regime......Page 298
I. ORIGINS OF THE CONCEPT OF THE ‘RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT’......Page 299
III. BACKGROUND TO THE 2005 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CONCLUSION ON COMPLEMENTARY PROTECTION......Page 300
IV. INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS......Page 301
V. STATELESS PEOPLE......Page 302
VI. REFUGEES......Page 304
VIII. THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CONCLUSION ON COMPLEMENTARY PROTECTION......Page 305
IX. CONCLUSION......Page 307
X. POSTSCRIPT......Page 308
Index......Page 310