Books in the Routledge Research in Asylum, Migration and Refugee Law series

Questions of gender have strongly influenced the development of international refugee law over the last few decades. This volume assesses the progress towards appropriate recognition of gender-related persecution in refugee law. It documents the advances made following intense advocacy around the world in the 1990s, and evaluates the extent to which gender has been successfully integrated into refugee law.

This edited volume is framed around two themes which go to the core of contemporary refugeehood; those of protection and identity. It analyses how the issue of refugee identity is shaped by and responds to the legal regime of refugee protection in contemporary times. The book investigates the premise that there is a narrowing of protection space in many countries and many highly visible incidents of refoulement. Contributors to the volume, who include Erika Feller, Elspeth Guild, Hélène Lambert and Roger Zetter, look at the relevant issues from the perspective of a number of different disciplines including law, politics, sociology, and anthropology.

This book explores the issues surrounding the best interests of the child in relation to unaccompanied minor migrants in Europe. It draws on anthropology and social science methodologies as well as law in order to analyse examine the legal framework and practices related to UAM in the reception, protection, asylum and return procedures and conditions in selected EU countries. The book considers national policies towards particular types of UAM, it identifies good practices and highlights specific measures and procedural guarantees as well as national practices related to particular aspects of asylum and migration processes.

Questions of gender have strongly influenced the development of international refugee law over the last few decades. This volume assesses the progress towards appropriate recognition of gender-related persecution in refugee law. It documents the advances made following intense advocacy around the world in the 1990s, and evaluates the extent to which gender has been successfully integrated into refugee law.

This book explores the issues surrounding the best interests of the child in relation to unaccompanied minor migrants in Europe. It draws on anthropology and social science methodologies as well as law in order to analyse examine the legal framework and practices related to UAM in the reception, protection, asylum and return procedures and conditions in selected EU countries. The book considers national policies towards particular types of UAM, it identifies good practices and highlights specific measures and procedural guarantees as well as national practices related to particular aspects of asylum and migration processes.

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Universitae de Genaeve, Institut de hautes aEtudes internationales et du Daeveloppement, 2012) issued under title: Specific characteristics and challenges of refugee and asylum-seeker protection in Sub-Saharan Africa

This volume elucidates and explores the interrelationships and direct causal connection between serious international crimes, serious breaches to fundamental human rights and gross affronts to human dignity, that lead to mass forced migration.

Unaccompanied child asylum seekers are amongst the world's most vulnerable populations, and their numbers are increasing. The intersection of their age, their seeking asylum, and separation from their parents creates a specific and acute triple burden of vulnerability. Their precariousness has long been recognised in international human rights law. Yet, human rights-based responses have been subordinated to progressive global securitisation of irregular migration through interception, interdiction, extraterritorial processing and immigration detention. Such an approach necessitates an urgent paradigm shift in how we comprehend their needs as children, the impact of punitive border control laws on them, and the responsibility of States to these children when they arrive at their borders seeking asylum.This book reconceptualises the relationship between unaccompanied child asylum seekers and States. It proposes a new conceptual framework by applying international human rights law, childhood studies and vulnerability theory scholarship in analysing State obligations to respond to these children. This framework incorporates a robust analysis of the operation and impact of laws on vulnerable populations, a taxonomy for articulating the gravity of any consequent harms and a method to prioritise recommendations for reform.The book then illustrates the framework's utility using Australia's treatment of unaccompanied children as a case study. This book illuminates key learnings from human rights law, childhood studies and vulnerability theory and transforms them into a new roadmap for law reform. As such, it will be a valuable practice-based resource for practitioners, non-government organisations, advocates, policymakers and the general public interested in advocating for the rights of vulnerable populations as well as for academics, researchers and students of human rights law, refugee law, childhood studies and vulnerability studies.