(English) The Humanitarian-Development Nexus: Opportunities for Canadian Leadership
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Children on the Run: Unaccompanied Children Leaving Central America and Mexico and the Need for International Protection
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Europe Must Take on its Share of the Syrian Refugee Burden, But How?
The Migration Policy Centre (MPC) is delighted to present you the following Policy Brief: Europe Must Take on its Share of the Syrian Refugee Burden, But How?by Philippe Fargues, Director of the MPChttp://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/29919/20140214-PB-RSCAS_MPC-Syria-web.pdf?sequence=1 While peace talks between Syria’s government and opposition entered into deadlock in Geneva, battles rage on the ground, and the death toll … Seguir leyendo Europe Must Take on its Share of the Syrian Refugee Burden, But How?
On the Borders of Refuge Protection: The Impact of Human Rights Law on Refugee Law Comparative Practice and Theory
This report summarises the proceedings at the international conference On the Borders of Refuge Protection: The Impact of Human Rights Law on Refugee Law Comparative Practice and Theory hosted by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study of the University of London, on 13-14 November 2013. The conference was organized by … Seguir leyendo On the Borders of Refuge Protection: The Impact of Human Rights Law on Refugee Law Comparative Practice and Theory
Bordering on Failure: Canada-US Border Policy and the Politics of Refugee Exclusion
The Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic (HIRC) released today a comprehensive report titled Bordering on Failure: Canada-U.S. Border Policy and the Politics of Refugee Exclusion. The result of extensive research and fact-finding investigations led by HIRC affiliates Dr. Efrat Arbel (SJD 12) and Alletta Brenner (JD 14), the report finds that Canada is systematically closing … Seguir leyendo Bordering on Failure: Canada-US Border Policy and the Politics of Refugee Exclusion
Doomed to fail from the outset? UNHCRs Convention Plus Initiative revisited
In September 2002, the High Commissioner for Refugees outlined the contours of a new initiative: the Convention Plus initiative, which set out to develop a normative framework for global burden-sharing. It proceeded from the assumption that the present refugee law regime – in this context, the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and … Seguir leyendo Doomed to fail from the outset? UNHCRs Convention Plus Initiative revisited
Accession of Pakistan to the 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees: ‘Signing on Could Make All the Difference’
One of the means UNHCR uses to attract accessions is a brochure entitled: The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol. Signing on Could Make All the Difference. Accession to the 1951 Convention and its 1967 Protocol would indeed make a difference, but not just the one, or rather ones, … Seguir leyendo Accession of Pakistan to the 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees: ‘Signing on Could Make All the Difference’
UNHCR and Turkey, and beyond: Of parallel tracks and symptomatic cracks.
Turkey’s obligations under the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees are confined to European refugees. However, when certain conditions are met, Turkey grants temporary stay to non-European refugees with a view to enabling them to resettle in a third state. The task of finding resettlement places falls to UNHCR Turkey, which presupposes that … Seguir leyendo UNHCR and Turkey, and beyond: Of parallel tracks and symptomatic cracks.
Funding the international refugee regime: Implications for protection
This article examines how donor funding has affected the underlying principle of protection in the international refugee regime. It focuses on the case of Tanzania, where refugee protection standards have declined consistently over the past twelve years, and argues that a shortage of funding within the regime has contributed to the shift in government policy … Seguir leyendo Funding the international refugee regime: Implications for protection
Secure borders, safe haven, domopolitics
What implications do emerging spaces, concepts and identities of security have for the practice of citizenship? This article examines security and citizenship in the UK. As its focus it takes a recent White Paper published by the British government called Secure Borders, Safe Haven (2002). Two arguments are developed. First, it is argued that with … Seguir leyendo Secure borders, safe haven, domopolitics