International Refugee Law and Socio-Economic Rights
Subtitle: Refuge from Deprivation (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 12, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780521870177
Subjects: International human rights law; Political Science; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Politics/International Relations; International; Law / Human Rights; Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights; Asylum, Right of; Human rights; Legal status, laws, etc; Refugees
Description: "A range of emerging refugee claims is beginning to challenge the boundaries of the Refugee Convention regime and question traditional distinctions between 'economic migrants' and 'political refugees'. This book identifies the conceptual and analytical challenges presented by claims based on socio-economic deprivation, and undertakes an assessment of the extent to which these challenges may be overcome by a creative interpretation of the Refugee Convention, consistent with correct principles of international treaty interpretation.

The central argument is that, notwithstanding the dichotomy between 'economic migrants' and 'political refugees', the Refugee Convention is capable of accommodating a more complex analysis which recognizes that many claims based on socio-economic deprivation indeed properly considered within the purview of the Refugee Convention. This, the first book to consider these issues, will be of great interest to refugee law scholars, advocates, decision-makers and non-governmental organizations."--BOOK JACKET.