27 February 2020

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Events & opportunities:

Symposium: Borderline: Problems and Perspectives in Global Migration, Berkeley, CA, 28 February 2020 [info]

CFP: Berkeley Law Journal [info]
- "[S]cholarly works on the themes of migration, refugee law, and asylum law" are sought for Symposium issue. Submission deadline is 1 March 2020.

Blog posts:

The End of Protection? Cessation and the "Return Turn" in Refugee Law (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, Jan. 2020) [text]

International Law and the Cold War: The Case of the 1967 Refugee Protocol (Notice & Comment Blog, Feb. 2020) [text]

New OA book: 

The Michigan Guidelines on the International Protection of Refugees (Maize Books, 2020) [open access]
- "The Michigan Guidelines on the International Protection of Refugees are the result of a collective endeavor of hundreds of scholars, advocates, judges, and international officials to tackle some of the most important and challenging questions in international refugee law. This volume presents 20 years of the Guidelines — the consensus work of senior Michigan Law students and experts from around the world on cutting-edge refugee law concerns — in five languages (English, French, Spanish, Arabic, and Russian)."

Reports & journal articles:

European Refugee Law and the Situation of Refugees in East Africa, RLI Working Paper, no. 43 (Refugee Law Initiative, Feb. 2020) [text]

"Introduction," Chapter in Refugee Law after 9/11: Sanctuary and Security in Canada and the United States (UBC Press, Feb. 2020) [access]
- Select "sample chapter" to view the introduction.

"Reconfiguring the Deserving Refugee: Cultural Categories of Worth and the Making of Refugee Policy," Law & Society Review, vol. 54, no. 1 (March 2020) [free full-text]

"Safe Zones and the Internal Protection Alternative," International and Comparative Law Quarterly (Forthcoming, 2020) [preprint]

Understanding Decisions Made on Asylum Applications in Host Countries, Policy Research Working Paper, no. WPS9153 (World Bank, Feb. 2020) [text]
- See also related blog post.

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