The Refugee Convention at Fifty A View from Forced Migration Studies

by Selm, Van Joanne; Kamanga, Khoti; Morrison, John; Nadig, Aninia; Špoljar-Vržina, Sanja M.; Allain, Jean; Care, Geoffrey; Chantavanich, Supang; Crépeau, François; Crisp, Jeff; Hauff, Edvard; Jaeger, Gilbert; Kirisci, Kemal; Kjærum, Morten; Levy, Carl; Moor

• ISBN13: 9780739105665
• ISBN10: 0739105663
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-19
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Prompted by the fiftieth anniversary of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, this volume collects essays by scholars from a wide range of disciplines, NGO staff, international organization professionals, and national-level policy makers. The contributors examine the impact of this legal document on forced migrants, the states they migrate from and to, and the societies they join and leave behind.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(8)
Joanne van Selm
Khoti Kamanga
John Morrison
Aninia Nadig
Sanja Spoljar-Vrzina
Loes van Willigen
Opening Keynote Address: The Refugee Convention at Fifty	9	(14)
Gilbert Jaeger
Global Solidarity: Report of a Plenary Session	23	(8)
Joanne van Selm
Regional Approaches to Forced Migration	31	(16)
George Okoth-Obbo
Mireille O'Connor
Morten Kjaerum
Supang Chantavanich
The Refugee Convention Applied: Moral, Medical, Ethical, and Judicial Questions and Limitations	47	(18)
Geoffrey Care
Edvard Hauff
Annemiek Richters
Loes van Willigen
Refugees: Whose Term Is It Anyway? Emic and Etic Constructions of ``Refugees'' in Modern Greek	65	(16)
Eftihia Voutira
Insisting on the Jus Cogens Nature of Non-Refoulement	81	(16)
Jean Allain
Turkey, UNHCR, and the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees: Problems and Prospects of Cooperation	97	(16)
Kemal Kirisci
Whither the Accountability Theory: Second-Class Status for Third-Party Refugees as a Threat to International Refugee Protection	113	(16)
Jennifer Moore
The Geneva Convention and the European Union: A Fraught Relationship	129	(16)
Carl Levy
Roma Asylum Applications in the United Kingdom: ``Scroungers'' or ``Scapegoats''?	145	(16)
Dallal Stevens
Human Smuggling and Refugee Protection in the European Union: Myths and Realities	161	(12)
Aninia Nadig
John Morrison
The Fight against Migrant Smuggling: Migration Containment over Refugee Protection	173	(14)
Francois Crepeau
Medical Anthropology in the Service of Forcefully Migrating Populations: Current Boundaries, Future Horizons, and Possible Delusions	187	(16)
Sanja Spoljar-Vrzina
The Refugee Convention and Practice in South Asia: A Marriage of Inconvenience?	203	(16)
Sumit Sen
Closing Keynote Address	219	(12)
Jeff Crisp
Appendix: Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, Adopted on 28 July 1951 by the United Nations Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Status of Refugees and Stateless Persons, Convened under General Assembly Resolution 429(V) of 14 December 1950	231	(18)
About the Editors and Contributors	249