Human rights and the refugee definition
Subtitle: comparative legal practice and theory
By: edited by David Cantor, Bruce Burson
Series: International refugee law series -- v. 5
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004288584
Subjects: Refugees; Congresses; Legal status, laws
Notes: Includes papers presented as a conference in November 2013.--ECIP acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : interpreting the refugee definition via human rights standards / Bruce Burson and David James Cantor; title: Give way to the right : the evolving use of human rights in new zealand refugee status determination / Bruce Burson; title: Island nation : the impact of international human rights law on australian refugee law / Linda J. Kirk; title: The human rights bases of refugee protection in canada / James C. Simeon; title: International human rights and us refugee law : synergies and contradictions / Deborah Anker and Josh Vittor; title: International human rights and refugee law : the united kingdom / Raza Husain; title: Refugee law jurisprudence from germany and human rights : cutting edge or chilling effect? / Roland Bank; title: The search of the outer edges of non-refoulement in europe : exceptionality and flagrant breaches / Cathryn Costello; title: Human rights in refugee protection in brazil / Liliana Lyra Jubilut, Camila Sombra Muinos de Andrade and Camila Marques Gilberto; title: Economic migrant or person in need of protection? : socio-economic rights and persecution in international refugee law / Michelle Foster; title: An enabling interpretation of the refugee convention : determination of refugee status in light of the convention on the; title: Rights of persons with disabilities (crpd) / Andreas Dimopoulos; title: The right to refugee status and the internal protection alternative : what does the law say? / Jessica Schultz and Terje Einarsen; title: [en]gendering international refugee protection : are we there yet? / Heaven Crawley; title: Defining refugees : persecution, surrogacy and the human rights paradigm / David James Cantor.