Includes papers presented as a conference in November 2013.--ECIP acknowledgments. Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-406) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : interpreting the refugee definition via human rights standards / Bruce Burson and David James Cantor -- Give way to the right : the evolving use of human rights in New Zealand refugee status determination / Bruce Burson -- Island nation : the impact of international human rights law on Australian refugee law / Linda J. Kirk -- The human rights bases of refugee protection in Canada / James C. Simeon -- International human rights and US refugee law : synergies and contradictions / Deborah Anker and Josh Vittor -- International human rights and refugee law : the United Kingdom / Raza Husain -- Refugee law jurisprudence from Germany and human rights : cutting edge or chilling effect? / Roland Bank -- The search for the outer edges of non-refoulement in Europe : exceptionality and flagrant breaches / Cathryn Costello -- Human rights in refugee protection in Brazil / Liliana Lyra Jubilut, Camila Sombra Muinos de Andrade and Camila Marques Gilberto -- Economic migrant or person in need of protection? Socio-economic rights and persecution in international refugee law / Michelle Foster -- An enabling interpretation of the refugee convention : determination of refugee status in light of the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities / Andreas Dimopoulos -- The right to refugee status and the internal protection alternative : what does the law say? / Jessica Schultz and Terje Einarsen -- [En]gendering international refugee protection : are we there yet? / Heaven Crawley -- Defining refugees : persecution, surrogacy and the human rights paradigm / David James Cantor.
Series:
International refugee law series, 2213-3836 ; volume 5
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