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« Back to Rethinking Refuge blogMaking responsibility-sharing operational: Comparing asylum and climate governance
International law demands that refugees obtain humanitarian protection in a safe country. However, which country should be responsible for which refugee remains a contested and unresolved question of international asylum governance.
Refugee Eligibility: Challenging Stereotypes and Reviving the ‘Benefit of the Doubt’
It is time to rethink the evidence so often submitted and relied upon in asylum claims, to return to a core principle of refugee law – the need to afford asylum seekers the benefit of the doubt.
Child Repatriation in the Time of COVID-19
Child protection concerns have never been central to refugee policy or practice. COVID-19 creates added pressure to repatriate refugees, but also an opportunity to rethink repatriation policies to better serve the interests of vulnerable child migrants.
Rethinking Refuge from Gender-Based Violence: Persecution for Which Convention Reason?
Rarely consulted, specialist legal regimes developed to respond to violence against women offer an important legal framework for cases of gender-based violence constituting grounds for refugee status.
Should States Counteract Anti-Refugee Sentiments?
Current widespread anti-immigrant and anti-refugee sentiments are morally troubling from the perspective of liberal democratic political theory. Should liberal democratic governments counteract such views?
Refugee-led Organisations: Collective action for collective assistance
When most people think of collective action, they likely think of citizens mobilising for various ends or states and other transnational actors addressing problems. But what do we see when we examine refugees as agents of collective action themselves?
Rethinking Refugee Registration
Refugee registration is often perceived as a mundane and straightforward exercise but my research in Kenya shows this is not always the case. Instead, registration has important implications for state power.
Rethinking Refugee Choices in the Dublin System
Refugee responsibility sharing has been an ongoing topic in debates on asylum in the EU, but consideration of the role that refugees as actors ought to play in it is neglected.
Rethinking the Common European Asylum System: Protection or containment?
The Common European Asylum System (CEAS) was set up to create a fair and efficient common asylum policy across the EU. However, my research suggests instead that the CEAS is premised upon containment policies.