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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 Expansion of “Particularly Serious Crimes” in Refugee Law: Mirroring the Severity Revolution [PDF]

, 2015
Refugees are not protected from deportation if they have been convicted of a “particularly serious crime” (“PSC”) which renders them a danger to the community. This raises questions about the meaning of “particularly serious” and “danger to the community.
Holper, Mary
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Refugees, Rights, and Human Security

Refuge, 2001
This essay explores the connection between discourses of membership, and refugee and human rights law. The argument is that state practice is often anchored in conceptions of democracy that refugee advocates must challenge at a fundamental level.
Colin J. Harvey
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Disasters, displacement and a new framework in the Americas

Forced Migration Review, 2015
There is a startling range of positive examples of national law, policy and practice all across the Americas that states have used to respond to the migratory consequences of disasters.
David James Cantor
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Bordering on Legality: Canadian Church Sanctuary and the Rule of Law

Refuge, 2010
This paper examines church sanctuary incidents in Canada involving unsuccessful refugee claimants seeking to avoid deportation.The author contends that when faith-based communities develop formal screening mechanisms to determine who among the many that ...
Sean Rehaag
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Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons, And International Humanitarian Law [PDF]

, 2004
The fact that war is the primary cause of people being uprooted prompts us to ask what protection the law of armed conflict affords refugees and displaced persons. How does humanitarian law protect groups of civilians from being forced to flee?
Bugnion, Francois
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Claim Types in Canada’s Refugee Determination System

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This article overviews outcomes in different types of refugee claims in Canada. It critiques standard legal research methodologies in the refugee law field due to skews in publication practices.
Sean Rehaag
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Re-Imagining the Concept of Forced Migration in the Face of Climate Change

Groningen Journal of International Law, 2019
This article analyses the impacts of climate change which are no longer only within the scientific realm. This analysis reveals the effects of climate change and the challenges that it poses to the current refugee definition and the existing regime of ...
Allan M. Mukuki
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A Will and a Way: Making Displaced Children’s Right to Education Enforceable

Laws, 2023
All children have the right to education without discrimination, but half of refugee children are out of school, far worse than global averages. Obstacles to education for refugee and migrant children include poverty and overstretched resources in host ...
Bill Van Esveld
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A Gendered Approach to Security and Violence in Refugee Camps [PDF]

, 2017
The purpose of this research is to explore the connection between the lack of security and increase of gender based violence in refugee camps. There are several factors that contribute to insecurity in refugee camps including but not limited to ...
Sakaria, Priya
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