The collective responsibility of states to protect refugees
By: Agnès Hurwitz.
Series: Oxford monographs in international law; Oxford monographs in international law
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780199278381
Subjects: Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc; Refugees -- Government policy; Asylum, Right of
Description: This title analyses the concept of sharing responsibility between states for protecting refugees under international law and how this mechanism highlights serious concerns for the protection of refugees' rights.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Origins and developments of arrangements to allocate responsibility for the protection of refugees; title: Safe third country practices, readmission, and extraterritorial processing; title: Allocation of responsibility for examining an application for asylum under the Dublin Regime; title: The impact of safe third country practices on inter-state relations; title: States' obligations towards refugees; title: Supervision at the level of the European Union; title: International supervision.