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Title Human rights and the refugee definition : comparative legal practice and theory / edited by David Cantor, Bruce Burson
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series International refugee law series ; v. 5
Contents Introduction : interpreting the refugee definition via human rights standards / Bruce Burson and David James Cantor -- Give way to the right : the evolving use of human rights in new zealand refugee status determination / Bruce Burson -- Island nation : the impact of international human rights law on australian refugee law / Linda J. Kirk -- The human rights bases of refugee protection in canada / James C. Simeon -- International human rights and us refugee law : synergies and contradictions / Deborah Anker and Josh Vittor -- International human rights and refugee law : the united kingdom / Raza Husain -- Refugee law jurisprudence from germany and human rights : cutting edge or chilling effect? / Roland Bank -- The search of the outer edges of non-refoulement in europe : exceptionality and flagrant breaches / Cathryn Costello -- Human rights in refugee protection in brazil / Liliana Lyra Jubilut, Camila Sombra Muinos de Andrade and Camila Marques Gilberto -- Economic migrant or person in need of protection? : socio-economic rights and persecution in international refugee law / Michelle Foster -- An enabling interpretation of the refugee convention : determination of refugee status in light of the convention on the -- Rights of persons with disabilities (crpd) / Andreas Dimopoulos -- The right to refugee status and the internal protection alternative : what does the law say? / Jessica Schultz and Terje Einarsen -- [en]gendering international refugee protection : are we there yet? / Heaven Crawley -- Defining refugees : persecution, surrogacy and the human rights paradigm / David James Cantor
Summary In Human Rights and the Refugee Definition, Burson and Cantor bring together over a dozen contributions that add a fine-grained comparative perspective to the debate on whether, or how, interpretation of the refugee definition should take account of human rights law.-- Provided by Publisher
Notes Includes papers presented as a conference in November 2013.--ECIP acknowledgments
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Congresses
International law and human rights -- Congresses
LAW -- International.
International law and human rights
Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Refugees.
Human rights.
Asylum.
Emigration and immigration.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Cantor, David James, editor
Burson, Bruce, editor
LC no. 2015050332
ISBN 9004288597
9789004288591
9004288589
9789004288584