Bibliograph

The law of refugee status, James C. Hathaway and Michelle Foster

Type

Label

The law of refugee status, James C. Hathaway and Michelle Foster

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The law of refugee status

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

883411983

Responsibility statement

James C. Hathaway and Michelle Foster

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Summary

The first edition of The Law of Refugee Status (published in 1991) is generally regarded as the seminal text on interpreting the refugee definition set by the UN's 1951 Refugee Convention. Its groundbreaking analysis served as the bedrock for not only much judicial reasoning, but also for a burgeoning academic literature in law and related fields. This second edition builds on the strong critical focus and human rights orientation of the first edition, but undertakes an entirely original analysis of the jurisprudence of leading common law and select civil law states. The authors provide robust responses to the most difficult questions of refugee status in a clear and direct way. The result is a comprehensive and truly global analysis of the central question in asylum law: who is a refugee?--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

1. Alienage -- 2. Well-founded fear -- 3. Serious harm -- 4. Failure of state protection -- 5. Nexus to civil or political status -- 6. Persons no longer needing protection -- 7. Persons not deserving protection

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