Displacement caused by climate change is an area of growing concern. With current rises in
sea levels and changes to the global climate, it is an issue of fundamental importance to the …

The status of the refugee in international law, and of everyone entitled to protection, has ever
been precarious, not least in times of heightened and heated debate: people have always …

From offshore border enforcement to detention centers on remote islands, struggles over
human smuggling, detention, asylum, and associated policies play out along the …

Millions of refugees are stuck in camps and cities of the global South without permanent
legal status. They wait in limbo, their status unresolved in what the United Nations (UN) calls …

This book argues that the international refugee regime and its 'temporary'humanitarian
interventions have failed. Most refugees across the global live in 'protracted'conditions that …

The extension of border controls beyond a country's territory to regulate the flows of migrants
before they arrive has become a popular and highly controversial policy practice. Today …

This book considers the legal obligations countries have to people who do not meet the
legal definition of a 'refugee', but who have been forcibly displaced from their homes. This is …

When a host state rejects the international refugee law regime, yet faces an unprecedented
number of refugees, how does the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees …

Why do states protect refugees? In the past twenty years, states have sought to limit access
to asylum by increasing their border controls and introducing extraterritorial controls. Yet no …

In managing the growing number of refugees arriving in the industrialized world, States have
devised increasingly restrictive policies since the end of the 1970s in order to restrict access …