New Issue of IJRL

The latest issue of the International Journal of Refugee Law (IJRL) has been published. Contents of vol. 35, no. 4, Dec. 2023 include:

• Will International Refugee Law Still Be Relevant in 2033? [abstract]
• Unrecognizing Refugees: The Inadmissibility Scheme Replacing Article 1F Decisions in Canada [open access]
• Financial Crimes as ‘Serious Non-Political Crimes’: Consequences for the Concepts of Seriousness and Unworthiness in Exclusion Law [abstract]
• Pushed to Breaking Point? The Prohibition of ‘Constructive’ or ‘Disguised’ Refoulement under International Law [abstract]
• The Locus of Persecution Reconsidered: Risk of Re-Trafficking, Cumulative Harm, and Failure of State Protection [open access]
• Enhancing the Rights of Protection-Seeking Migrants through the Global Compact for Migration: The Case of EU Asylum Policy [open access]

In addition, readers will find case law summaries; the text of the Kaldor Centre Principles on Climate Mobility; and two book reviews.

Tagged Periodicals.

Regional Focus: Middle East (incl. Syria), esp. Iraqis

Event:

Meeting: Refugee Crises in the Middle East: A Shared Responsibility, Washington, DC, 18 May 2016 [info]

Publications:

al Majdal, no. 58 (Spring 2016) [full-text]
- Theme of this issue is "Oslo is Dead: Alternative Approaches to Achieve Durable Solutions."

"Beyond Exclusion: Palestinian Refugees and the 1951 Refugee Convention," The Researcher, vol. 11, no. 1 (April 2016) [text via Refworld]
 - Scroll to p. 2.

Cash-based Response Feasibility Assessment in Northern Syria (Global Communities, May 2016) [text via ReliefWeb]

Displacement in Iraq Exceeds 3.4 Million (IOM, April 2016) [text]

A Gendered Perspective: Safety, Dignity and Privacy of Camp and Camp-like Settings in Iraq (IOM, May 2016) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Imprisonment and Deportation of Iraqi Refugees in Lebanon," Forced Migration Review, no. 52 (May 2016) [open access]

Iraq: Besieged Population in Fallujah (ACAPS, April 2016) [text via ReliefWeb]

Iraq’s Displacement Crisis: Security and Protection (Minority Rights Group, April 2016) [text]

"The Legal Status of Iraqi Refugees in Neighbouring Countries," Forced Migration Review, no. 52 (May 2016) [open access]

Syria and the Middle East: Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons and Asylum Seekers in Long-Term Global Crises, Cornell, NY, 22 March 2016 [access]
- Follow link for video.

US Probe into Turkey-Syria Aid Corruption Deepens (IRIN, May 2016) [text]

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: Syria (4 May 2016)
- Regional Focus: MENA (15 April 2016)


Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Julian Assange & Asylum

The BBC has reported that Julian Assange was granted asylum by Ecuador.  He sought refuge in Ecuador's London embassy in June.  See also this Q&A from the BBC.

Earlier thoughts on Assange's strategy are available from The Asylumist, Dipublico, and EJIL Talk.

To learn more about diplomatic asylum generally, here is a recently published thesis on the subject: Diplomatic Asylum in the Context of Public International Law (Mykolas Romeris University, 2012)

Tagged Publications.  

Publications: Climate Case Studies, Haiti Reconstruction, IDPs/Serbia, Iraqis/Jordan, Irregular Migration, Preventing Corruption, Rohingya/Malaysia

Addressing the Humanitarian Challenges of Climate Change: Regional and National Perspectives - Case Studies on Climate Change Adaptation (IASC, Jan. 2010) [text]

Conference on Irregular Migration: Legal and Policy Perspectives (Center for Migration Studies & IOM, Jan. 2010) [access]
- Statements, presentations and background papers are available.

Living in Limbo: Iraqi Young Women and Men in Jordan (Women's Refugee Commission, Dec. 2009) [text]

Preventing Corruption in Humanitarian Operations: A Handbook of Good Practices (Transparency International, Feb. 2010) [text via ReliefWeb]

Reconstructing Haiti (Oxfam, Jan. 2010) [text]

Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, Walter Kälin: addendum, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/13/21/Add.1 (UNGA, Human Rights Council, Dec. 2009) [text via Refworld]

Trapped in a cycle of flight: Stateless Rohingya in Malaysia (Equal Rights Trust, Jan. 2010) [text via FMO]

Tagged Publications.