Title: Refugee rights and realities : evolving international concepts and regimes
Abstract: Part I. The Evolving Refugee Definition: 1. The refugee definition as law: issues of interpretation Daniel J. Steinbock 2. The Geneva refugee definition and the 'theory of the three scales Jean-Yves Carlier 3. Who is a refugee? The Convention definition: universal or obsolete Jerzy Sztucki 4. Beyond the Geneva Convention: constructing a de facto right of asylum from international human rights instruments Richard Plender and Nuala Mole 5. Rethinking the refugee concept Patricia Tuitt 6. Taking the 'political' out of asylum: the legal containment of refugees' political activism Prakash Shah 7. Refugee definitions in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States Claire Messina Part II: 8. The developing role of the UNHCR: the role of UNHCR in the development of international refugee law Volker Turk 9. UNHCR as leader in humanitarian assistance: a triumph of politics over law? S. Alex Cunliffe and Michael Pugh 3. 10. In-country protection: out of bounds for UNHCR? Erin D .Mooney 11. Refugee identity and protection's fading prospect Guy S . Goodwin-Gill Part III. State Responses and Individual Rights: 12. The refugee state and state protection Daniel Warner 13. Non-admission policies and the right to protection: refugees' choice vs. states' exclusion Jens Vedsted-Hansen 14. Early warning and prevention: the United Nations and Rwanda Howard Adelman Part IV. The European Regime: 15. The impetus to harmonise: asylum policy in the European Union Elspeth Guild 16. A new asylum regime in Europe Daniele Joly 17. Is there a need for a European asylum policy? Cornelis D. de Jong.
Publication Year: 1999
Publication Date: 1999-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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