i. Alienage

  Main Debates Requirement that Refugees Be Outside of their State of Nationality v. Need for Protection Should the Internally Displaced Receive Refugee Protection?   Main Points 1951 Geneva Convention Applies to a Subset of Forced MigrantsUnderlying Legal and Practical Motivations of State Parties for Requirement thatRefugees Cross International BordersUNHCR v. State Party Views on International Protection Needs: UNHCR Assists to IDPsReadingsCoreJ. Hathaway, The Law of Refugee Status (Toronto: Butterworths, 1991), pp. 29–33.A. Shacknove, ‘Who Is a Refugee?’, Ethics, vol. 95, no. 2 (January 1985), p. 274.  

About the Reader

Section I Introduction to International Refugee Law: Background and Context


Section II International Framework for Refugee Protection


Section III European Framework for Refugee Protection


Section IV UNHCR and Other Actors Relevant to International Asylum Law

i. Alienage

 

Main Debates

Requirement that Refugees Be Outside of their State of Nationality v. Need for Protection

Should the Internally Displaced Receive Refugee Protection?

 

Main Points

1951 Geneva Convention Applies to a Subset of Forced Migrants
Underlying Legal and Practical Motivations of State Parties for Requirement that
Refugees Cross International Borders
UNHCR v. State Party Views on International Protection Needs: UNHCR Assists to IDPs

Readings
Core
J. Hathaway, The Law of Refugee Status (Toronto: Butterworths, 1991), pp. 29–33.

A. Shacknove, ‘Who Is a Refugee?’, Ethics, vol. 95, no. 2 (January 1985), p. 274.

 



Readings

Core

The Law of Refugee Status

J. Hathaway, The Law of Refugee Status (Toronto: Butterworths, 1991), 29-33.
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Who Is a Refugee?

A. Shacknove, 'Who Is a Refugee?’ (1985) 95 Ethics 274.