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The Growing Influence of the Courts over the Fate of Refugees [PDF]
, 2008 A number of migration scholars suggest that domestic courts have become the key protective institution for refugees. How can we explain this claim? One prominent explanation identifies group litigation as the key source of the increasing influence of the
Soennecken, Dagmar
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New trends in migratory and refugee law in Brazil: the expanded refugee definition
Revista do Direito, 2016 This paper aims to explore new trends in Brazilian refugee and migratory law in the last 20 years. In doing so it addresses the evolution of the definition of “refugee” in Brazil, expanding the eligibility grounds provided by the 1951 Geneva Convention ...
Catherine Jane Tinker +1 more
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Forced Marriage as a Harm in Domestic and International Law [PDF]
, 2010 This article reports on our analysis of 120 refugee cases from Australia, Canada, and Britain where an actual or threatened forced marriage was part of the claim for protection.
Dauvergne, C, Millbank, J
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Symbolic Refugee Protection: Explaining Latin America’s Liberal Refugee Laws
American Political Science Review, 2022 What drove an entire region in the Global South to significantly expand refugee protection in the early twenty-first century? In this paper, we test and build on political refugee theory via a mixed-methods approach to explain the liberalization of refugee legislation across Latin America.
OMAR HAMMOUD-GALLEGO +1 more
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Journal of Interactive Media in EducationUganda currently hosts approximately 1.7 million refugees (93% fully registered refugees, 3% asylum seekers and 4% stateless persons), the most in sub-Saharan Africa. Most refugees come from South Sudan (57%), Democratic Republic of Congo (32%), Burundi (
Andie Reynolds +8 more
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Ancient Refugee Policies reviewed with the International Law Acquis of Today
Revista Tecnológica, 2022 The article revisits the refugee policies of Ancient Athens and Ancient Rome and highlights how exploring them reveals the value of the contemporary acquis of international law for actively addressing refugee crises triggered by military invasion.
Florian Bikard, Benjamin Karp, Yu Huang
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Beyond the Supreme Court: A Modest Plea to Improve Our Asylum System [PDF]
, 2000 Moderating a session at the Workshop on the Supreme Court and Immigration and Refugee Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, Peter Spiro asked just how important the Supreme Court really is to refugee and immigration law. Unfortunately, the Supreme
Schoenholtz, Andrew I.
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The psychosocial toll of Dublin III on asylum seekers in the Netherlands
American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract The Dublin III Regulation determines which EU Member State is responsible for examining asylum claims, but its implementation carries significant consequences for those subjected to it. This study examines how Dublin III, as implemented in the Netherlands, affects asylum seekers' psychosocial wellbeing using Silove′s Adaptation and Development
Imen El Amouri
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Hopeful futures for refugees in higher education: cultivation, activation, and technology
International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher EducationThis paper discusses hopeful futures for higher education and the use of technology in realising those futures through the lens of refugee education in Uganda.
Michael Gallagher +4 more
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Laws, 2021 This study focuses on what Japan’s Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (ICRRA) calls ‘Special Permission to Stay’ (zairyū tokubetsu kyoka) on humanitarian grounds (SPS), and evaluates the extent to which SPS provides effective international ...
Brian Aycock, Naoko Hashimoto
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