Serious International Crimes, Human Rights, and Forced Migration

This volume elucidates and explores the interrelationships and direct causal connection between serious international crimes, serious breaches to fundamental human rights, and gross affronts to human dignity that lead to mass forced migration.

Forced migration most often occurs in the context of protracted armed conflict of a noninternational nature where terrorism, fierce fighting, deep animosity, tit-for-tat retaliation, and “rapid dominance” doctrine all lead to the commission of atrocity crimes. Accordingly, this volume makes a valuable contribution to the literature and to the cause of trying to resolve mass forced displacement at its root cause, to explore the course that it takes, and how it might be prevented. The collection comprises original research by leading legal scholars and jurists focusing on the three central themes of serious international crimes, human rights, and forced migration. The work also includes a Foreword from Sir Howard Morrison, QC, former President of the Appeals Division of the International Criminal Court.

The book will be a valuable resource for students, academics, researchers, and policymakers working in the areas of international law, migration, human rights, and international criminal law.

James C. Simeon is the head of McLaughlin College and an associate professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA), York University, Toronto, Canada. He is a member-at-large and past president of the Executive of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies. He also serves as the coordinator of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges’ (IARMJ) Inter-Conference Working Party Process. Before joining the faculty at York University he served as the IARMJ’s first executive director, and prior to that he was a member and coordinating member of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB).