Blurring Boundaries: Human Security and Forced Migration

In Blurring Boundaries: Human Security and Forced Migration scholars from law and social sciences offer a fresh view on the major issues of forced migration through the lens of human security. Although much scholarship engages with forced migration and human security independently, they have hardly been weaved together in a comprehensive manner. The contributions cover the issues of refugee law, maritime migration, human smuggling and trafficking and environmental migration.

Blurring Boundaries critically engages boundaries produced in the law with the main ideas of human security, thus providing a much-needed novel vocabulary for a critical discourse in forced migration studies.

Stefan Salomon holds degrees in law and political science from the University of Innsbruck and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He teaches refugee law at the University of Graz.
Lisa Heschl, Dr.iur. (2016) University of Graz, holds a Post-Doc position at the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy at that University of Graz. Her research focuses on European asylum and migration law and policy.
Gerd Oberleitner, Dr.iur. (1996), University of Graz, is Professor of International Law and UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Human Security at that University. His publications include Human Rights in Armed Conflict – Law, Practice, Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
Wolfgang Benedek is Professor Emeritus at the University of Graz, where he was head of the Institute of International Law and International Relations and the European Training and Research Centre of Human Rights and Democracy. He has published widely in the fields of human rights and human security.