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Behrman, Simon (2019) Refugee law as a means of control. Journal of Refugee Studies, 32 (1). pp. 42-62. doi:10.1093/jrs/fey016 ISSN 0951-6328.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fey016
Abstract
International refugee law has evolved as a means of control over the refugee. The first principles on which it has been built place the rights of the state above those of the refugee. Insofar as there is such a thing as a ‘right of asylum’, it is a right vested in the state rather than the refugee. As such, from the perspective of seeking a protection regime that places the needs of the refugee at its centre, it is a system that is fundamentally unreformable. My argument rests upon the historical development of the first principles developed by jurists from the seventeenth century through to the twentieth century, on the basis of historical development of refugee law between the two world wars, and on the drafting history of the 1951 Refugee Convention and its subsequent implementation.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Refugee Studies | ||||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0951-6328 | ||||||||
Official Date: | March 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 32 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 42-62 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/jrs/fey016 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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