Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Blog posts & press:

"Judicial action to protect the rights of people forced to flee," United Against Inhumanity Newsletter (June 2021) [text]

- Scroll down to view.

Making the Convention “Universal”: Other views of the Additional Protocol (FluchtforschungsBlog, May 2021) [text]

Replacing a Good Faith Approach with a Well-Founded Fear Approach (RefLaw Blog, May 2021) [text]

UNHCR’s Promotion of the 1951 Refugee Convention: From state petitions to protection space (FluchtforschungsBlog, June 2021) [text]

What is the difference between refugee status and humanitarian protection? (Free Movement Blog, June 2021) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Can’t be Held Responsible: Weak Norms and Refugee Protection Evasion," International Relations, OnlineFirst, 31 Oct. 2019 [preprint]

"Droit européen des migrations," Journal de droit européen, vol. 2020, no. 3 (2020) [UCLouvain]

"Evolución de los regímenes internacionales de refugio y migración y los retos tras la aprobación de los nuevos pactos mundiales = The evolution of international refuge and migration regimes and the  challenges posed by the signing of new global treaties," Revista IUS, vol. 15, no. 47 (Jan.-June 2021) [open access]

"Fortress World: Refugee Protection during (and after) the COVID-19 Pandemic," Chapter in Pandemic Societies (McGill-Queen’s University Press, Forthcoming 2021) [preprint]

Global Refugee Forum Legal Community Pledge: 2020 Progress Report (PILnet, June 2021) [text]

- See also related press release. More background information on this pledge is available via the GCR Digital Platform.

The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (Oxford Univ. Press, 2021) [info]

- Note: Use the code ALAUTHC4 to receive a 30% discount. 

Report on means to address the human rights impact of pushbacks of migrants on land and at sea, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/47/30 (Human Rights Council, May 2021) [text]

Multimedia:

Bridging Legal and Empirical Research Methods in Migration Research - What are the Challenges?, 10 Dec. 2020 [access]

- Follow link for video recording.

Refugee Protection and Responsibility-Sharing: The Quest for International Solidarity, 17 May 2021 [access]

- Follow link for video recording. See also Guy Goodwin-Gill's remarks given at the lecture.

Understanding Vulnerability in International Human Rights Law, 27 May 2021 [access]

- Follow link for video recording. 

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items (14 May 2021)