c. Temporary Protection

  Main Debates Adequacy of the 1951 Geneva Convention in Mass Flight Situations: Legally Binding Protection Norms v. Discretionary State Practices   Main Points Temporary Protection Is Not an Alternative to Convention Protection, but a Precursor to it (or to Subsidiary Protection) - until Individual Procedures Are Carried Out or Group Recognition Occurs UNHCR Documents UNCHR, 'Note on International Protection': UN doc. A/AC.96/830, 7 Sept. 1994, paras. 45-51.   Readings Core G. Goodwin-Gill and J. McAdam, The Refugee in International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 340–342. [G. Goodwin-Gill, The Refugee in International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 196–202].   Extended J. Fitzpatrick, ‘Temporary Protection of Refugees: Elements of a Formalized Regime’, American Journal of International Law, vol. 94, no. 2 (April 2000), pp. 279–306. G. Noll and J. Vedsted-Hansen, ‘Temporary Protection and Burden Sharing: Conditionalising Access Suspending Refugee Rights?’, in E. Guild and C. Harlow (eds), Implementing Amsterdam: Immigration and Asylum Rights in EC Law (Oxford: Hart, 2001), pp. 195–222.J. van Selm, ‘Temporarily Protecting Displaced Persons or Offering the Possibility to Start a New Life in the European Union’, European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 3, no. 1 (2001), pp. 23–35.J. Vedsted-Hansen, ‘Collective Protection – Temporary Asylum on a Changing Basis’, in [Temporary Protection and Repatriation. Bosnian Refugees in the Nordic Countries], Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers 1999 (Nord 1999:4), pp. 15–44.    

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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




c. Temporary Protection

 

Main Debates

Adequacy of the 1951 Geneva Convention in Mass Flight Situations: Legally Binding Protection Norms v. Discretionary State Practices

 

Main Points

Temporary Protection Is Not an Alternative to Convention Protection, but a Precursor to it (or to Subsidiary Protection) - until Individual Procedures Are Carried Out or Group Recognition Occurs


UNHCR Documents

UNCHR, 'Note on International Protection': UN doc. A/AC.96/830, 7 Sept. 1994, paras. 45-51.

 

Readings

Core

G. Goodwin-Gill and J. McAdam, The Refugee in International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 340–342. [G. Goodwin-Gill, The Refugee in International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 196–202].

 

Extended

J. Fitzpatrick, ‘Temporary Protection of Refugees: Elements of a Formalized Regime’, American Journal of International Law, vol. 94, no. 2 (April 2000), pp. 279–306.

G. Noll and J. Vedsted-Hansen, ‘Temporary Protection and Burden Sharing: Conditionalising Access Suspending Refugee Rights?’, in E. Guild and C. Harlow (eds), Implementing Amsterdam: Immigration and Asylum Rights in EC Law (Oxford: Hart, 2001), pp. 195–222.

J. van Selm, ‘Temporarily Protecting Displaced Persons or Offering the Possibility to Start a New Life in the European Union’, European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 3, no. 1 (2001), pp. 23–35.

J. Vedsted-Hansen, ‘Collective Protection – Temporary Asylum on a Changing Basis’, in [Temporary Protection and Repatriation. Bosnian Refugees in the Nordic Countries], Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers 1999 (Nord 1999:4), pp. 15–44.

 

 



UNHCR Documents

Note on International Protection

UNCHR, 'Note on International Protection': UN doc. A/AC.96/830, 7 Sept. 1994, paras. 45-51.

Readings

Core

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The Refugee in International Law

G. Goodwin-Gill and J. McAdam, The Refugee in International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 340–342. [G. Goodwin-Gill, The Refugee in International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 196–202].

 

Extended

Temporary Protection of Refugees: Elements of a Formalized Regime

J. Fitzpatrick 'Temporary Protection of Refugees: Elements of a Formalized Regime' (2000) 94 American Journal of International Law 279-306.

Temporary Protection and Burden Sharing: Conditionalising Access Suspending Refugee Rights?

G. Noll and J. Vedsted-Hansen, ‘Temporary Protection and Burden Sharing: Conditionalising Access Suspending Refugee Rights?’, in E. Guild and C. Harlow (eds), Implementing Amsterdam: Immigration and Asylum Rights in EC Law (Oxford: Hart, 2001), pp. 195–222.

Temporarily Protecting Displaced Persons or Offering the Possibility to Start a New Life in the European Union

J. van Selm, ‘Temporarily Protecting Displaced Persons or Offering the Possibility to Start a New Life in the European Union’, European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 3, no. 1 (2001), pp. 23–35.
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Collective Protection - Temporary Asylum on a Changing Basis

J. Vedsted-Hansen, ‘Collective Protection – Temporary Asylum on a Changing Basis’, in [Temporary Protection and Repatriation. Bosnian Refugees in the Nordic Countries], Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers 1999 (Nord 1999:4), pp. 15–44.