Full Description
The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law is a comprehensive, critical work, which analyses the state of research across the refugee law regime as a whole. Drawing together leading and emerging scholars, the Handbook provides both doctrinal and theoretical analyses of international refugee law and practice. It critiques existing law from a variety of normative positions, with several chapters identifying foundational flaws that open up space for radical rethinking. Many authors work directly in the field, and their contributions demonstrate how scholarship and practice can mutually inform each other.
Contributions assess a wide range of international legal instruments relevant to refugee protection, including from international human rights law, international humanitarian law, international migration law, the law of the sea, and international and transnational criminal law. Geographically, contributors examine regional and domestic laws and practices from around the world, with 10 chapters focused on specific regions. This Handbook provides an account, as well as a critique, of the status quo, and in so doing it sets the agenda for future academic research in international refugee law.
Contents
Part I. International Refugee Law: Reflections on the Scholarly Field 1: International Refugee Law in the Early Years 2: Race, Refugees, and International Law 3: A Feminist Appraisal of International Refugee Law 4: Queering International Refugee Law 5: The Politics of International Refugee Law 6: The Ethics of International Refugee Protection 7: Refugees as Migrants 8: The Intersection of International Refugee Law and International Statelessness LawPart II. Sources 9: The Architecture of the UN Refugee Convention and Protocol 10: The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 11: Moving Towards an Integrated Approach of Refugee Law and Human Rights Law 12: International Humanitarian Law and Refugee Protection 13: Customary Refugee Law 14: National Constitutions and Refugee ProtectionPart III. Regional Regimes 15: Regional Refugee Regimes: Africa 16: Regional Refugee Regimes: North America 17: Regional Refugee Regimes: Latin America 18: Regional Refugee Regimes: Middle East 19: Regional Refugee Regime: Europe 20: Regional Refugee Regimes: Central Asia 21: Regional Refugee Regimes: East Asia 22: Regional Refugee Regimes: South Asia 23: Regional Refugee Regimes: Southeast Asia 24: Refugee Regimes: OceaniaPart IV. Access to Protection and International Responsibility-Sharing 25: Sharing of Responsibilities for the International Protection of Refugees 26: Protection at Sea and the Denial of Asylum 27: Extraterritorial Migration Control and Deterrence 28: The Evolution of Safe Third Country Law and Practice 29: Human Smuggling and Refugees 30: Human Trafficking and Refugees 31: Refugee Status Determination 32: Asylum Procedures 33: Credibility, Reliability, and Evidential AssessmentPart IV. The Scope of Refugee Protection 34: The International and Regional Refugee Definitions Compared 35: UNRWA and Palestine Refugees 36: Complementary Protection 37: Temporary Protection and Temporary Refuge 38: The Internal Protection Alternative 39: Exclusion 40: Women in Refugee Jurisprudence 41: Child Refugees 42: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Refugee Claims 43: Protecting Refugees with Disabilities 44: Stateless Refugees 45: Conflict Refugees 46: Displacement in the context of Climate Change and Disasters 47: Internal DisplacementPart V. Refugee Rights and Realities 48: The Right to Asylum 49: National Constitutions and the Right to Asylum 50: Non-refoulement 51: Non-penalization and non-criminalization 52: The Right to Liberty 53: The Right to Work 54: The Right to Education 55: The Right to Family Reunification 56: The Digital Transformation of Refugee GovernancePart VI. The End of Refugeehood - Cessation and Durable Solutions 57: Cessation 58: Refugee Naturalization and Integration 59: Reimagining Voluntary Repatriation 60: Resettlement 61: Onward MigrationPart VII. Accountability for Displacement and Refugee Rights Violations 62: Restitution and Other Remedies for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons 63: The Responsibility of Armed Groups concerning Displacement 64: The Accountability of International Organizations in Refugee and Migration Law 65: Border Crimes as Crimes against Humanity
