Protection from Refuge (Cambridge Asylum and Migration Studies) - Softcover

Ogg, Kate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1009011081 ISBN 13: 9781009011082

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2023

Synopsis

The places in which refugees seek sanctuary are often as dangerous and bleak as the conditions they fled. In response, many travel within and across borders in search of safety. As part of these journeys, refugees are increasingly turning to courts to ask for protection, not from persecution in their homeland, but from a place of 'refuge'. This book is the first global and comparative study of 'protection from refuge' litigation, examining whether courts facilitate or hamper refugee journeys with a particular focus on gender. Drawing on jurisprudence from Africa, Europe, North America and Oceania, Kate Ogg shows that courts have transitioned from adopting robust ideas of refuge to rudimentary ones. This trajectory indicates that courts can play a powerful role in creating more just and equitable refugee protection policies, but have, ultimately, compounded the difficulties inherent in finding sanctuary, perpetuating global inequities in refugee responsibility and rendering refuge elusive.

About this title

About the Author

Kate Ogg is an Associate Professor at the Australian National University. Her research has been published in leading international journals and she is co-editor of the acclaimed Feminist Engagement with International Law. Kate has presented her research at UNHCR Headquarters and given evidence on refugee law to the Parliament of Australia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009011081
• ISBN 13: 9781009011082
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232