Legitimising Rejection: International Refugee Law in Southeast Asia
Dec 2007 · BRILL
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The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees are the two primary international legal instruments that states use to process asylum seekers' claim to refugee status. However, in Southeast Asia only two states have acceded to these instruments. This is seemingly paradoxical for a region that has been host to a large number of asylum seekers who, as a result, are forced to live as ‘illegal migrants’. This book examines the region's continued rejection of international refugee law through extensive archival analysis and argues that this rejection was shaped by the region’s response to its largest refugee crisis in the post-1945 era: the Indochinese refugee crisis from 1975 to 1996. The result is a seminal study into Southeast Asian's relationship with international refugee law and the impact that this has had on states surrounding the region, the UNHCR and the asylum seekers themselves.
The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees are the two primary international legal instruments that states use to process asylum seekers' claim to refugee status. However, in Southeast Asia only two states have acceded to these ...
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Sara E. Davies, Ph.D. (2005) in International Relations, University of Queensland, is a Lecturer at the School of Justice, Faculty of Law at the Queensland University of Technology. She has written a number of articles and chapters on international refugee law, state of exception in international law and global health governance.
Sara E. Davies, Ph.D. (2005) in International Relations, University of Queensland, is a Lecturer at the School of Justice, Faculty of Law at the Queensland University of Technology. She has written a number of articles and chapters on international refugee law, state of exception in international...
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