21 December 2024

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Short pieces:

Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa gain support on international refugee law (UNHCR, Nov. 2024) [text]

Vasanthakumar collaborates on €2-million refugee law study (Queen's Univ. News, Dec. 2024) [text]
- The project is called "RefLex: Is International Refugee Law Effective?"

Reports & journal articles:

"The 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees: Contemporary Theory and Practice," Chapter in Migration and Central Europe: Challenges and Legal Responses, Studies of the Central European Professors’ Network (Central European Academic Publishing, Miskolc, Dec. 2024) [full-text]

Asylum Capacity Self-Assessment: How-To Guide (UNHCR, Dec. 2024) [access]
- Note: Check the "Related Documents" and "Attachments" tabs for additional forms and information.

"Conceptualization Shapes Practice: Apostasy-Based Refugee Claims and International Human Rights Law," Journal of Human Rights Practice, vol. 16, no. 3 (Nov. 2024) [open access]

"Controlling the discretion to expel under Article 32 of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees Comments on the meaning of terms, particularly 'public order' and 'ordre public', and on the importance of judicial control," International Journal of Refugee Law (Forthcoming) [preprint]

Distress at sea: a call for a humanitarian and precautionary approach (UNHCR et al., Dec. 2024) [access]

"Fleeing Deprivation: Deducing Non-Refoulement Obligations from Economic, Social and Cultural Rights," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles, 5 Dec. 2024 [open access]

"Invisibilization of the unwanted Others? Feminist, queer, and postcolonial perspectives on the 1951 Refugee Convention’s drafting," Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 107 (Nov.-Dec. 2024) [open access]

"Liminal Legality Across Borders: Examining the Migrant's Right to 'Human Time' on the Shifting U.S.-Mexico and Türkiya-Syria Borders," Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 38, no. 3 (Spring 2024) [full-text]

Promoting sustainable peace through the protection of people displaced by climate change, disasters, and conflict: A personal view (SSRN, Dec. 2024) [text]
- "A revised and extended version of a paper originally given as a keynote presentation on 8 April 2024 at the annual conference of the Cambridge International Law Journal." An extensive bibliography/further reading list is provided in the annex.

Multimedia:

Rewriting Refugee Law: Centring Refugee Knowledges and Experiences, 4 Dec. 2024 [access]

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