Refuge: Focus on Refugee Status Determination (RSD)

Another issue of Refuge is now available online in full-text. The theme of vol. 25, no. 2 (2008) is "Building a Better Refugee Status Determination System." A number of the articles were first presented at the 2008 conference, "Best Practices for Refugee Status Determination." The editorial provides an overview of the current status of RSD and an introduction to the articles.

Contents include:

• Building the Infrastructure for the Observance of Refugee Rights in the Global South
• Refugee Status Determination in Brazil: A Tripartite Enterprise
• A Foot in the Door: Access to Asylum in South Africa
• An Evaluation of South Africa's Application of the OAU Refugee Definition
• Responsibility Sharing or Shifting? "Safe" Third Countries and International Law
• Canada's Refugee Status Determination System and the International Norm of Independence
• Thamotharem and Guideline 7 of the IRB: Rethinking the Scope of the Fettering of Discretion Doctrine
• The Guideline on Procedures with Respect to Vulnerable Persons Appearing Before the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada: A Critical Overview
• Abandoning Refugees? An Analysis of the Legal Framework Governing Non-compliant Claimants in Canada
• The Many Faces of "Prima Facie"
• Explaining Inequality in the Implementation of Asylum Law
• The Use of COI in the Refugee Status Determination Process in the UK: Looking Back, Reaching Forward
• Life after Refusal to Enter: Reflections of an Immigration Judge
  

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