Human Security and Non-Citizens: Law, Policy and International Affairs

by Edited by Alice Edwards , Carla Ferstman

• ISBN13: 9780521734943
• ISBN10: 0521734940
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-26
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The past decades have seen enormous changes in our perceptions of 'security', the causes of insecurity and the measures adopted to address them. Threats of terrorism and the impacts of globalisation and mass migration have shaped our identities, politics and world views. This volume of essays analyses these shifts in thinking and, in particular, critically engages with the concept of 'human security' from legal, international relations and human rights perspectives. Contributors consider the special circumstances of non-citizens, such as refugees, migrants, and displaced and stateless persons, and assess whether, conceptually and practically, 'human security' helps to address the multiple challenges they face.

Table of Contents

Human Security, Human Rights, and Human Dignity

Humanising non-citizens: the convergence of human rights and human security

Physical and Legal Security, Armed Conflict and Refuge

The value of the human security framework in addressing statelessness

Protection and empowerment: strategies to strengthen refugees' human security

From here to where? Refugees living in protracted situations in Africa

Once we were warriors: critical reflections on refugee and IDP militarisation and human security

Human security and protection from refoulement in the maritime context

Migration, Development and Environment

Empowering migrants: human security, human rights, and policy

Labour migration management and the rights of migrant workers

Socio-economic rights, human security, and survival migrants: whose rights? Whose security?

An insecure climate for human security? Climate-induced displacement and international law

Human security and trafficking of human beings: the myth and the reality

National Security and the 'War on Terror'

A distinction with a legal difference: the consequences of non-citizenship in the 'War on Terror'

Immigration law enforcement after 9/11 and human rights

Protection of non-citizens against removal under international human rights law

The human security framework and counter terrorism: examining the rhetoric relating to 'extraordinary renditions'

Legal routes to restoring individual rights at Guantanamo Bay: the effectiveness of Habeas Corpus applications and efforts to obtain diplomatic protection

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