Mass Refugee Influx and the Limits of Public International Law

1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-90-411-1921-6
Verlag: Wolters Kluwer

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 319 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 653 g

Reihe: Refugees and Human Rights

Situations of mass refugee influx represent by their very size and urgency daunting evidence of human suffering and cruelty. Consequently, the level and quality of refugee protection in times of crisis is tested. The choices to be made have to take into due consideration the prevalent conditions and restraints. They will probably always result in compromises. The question is whom or what the compromises are about?

The focus in the present volume has been set on a detailed examination of some legal preconceptions commonly found in situations of mass refugee in-migration. The author concludes that situations when refugees arrive en masse do not, as a rule, qualify as a public emergency that threatens the life of the nation under contemporary international human rights law, and that mass expulsion of refugees as an emergency measure is prohibited at all times when this entails the risk of violating rights immune to derogation.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eggli, Ann Vibeke

Eggli, Ann

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Kriegsrecht, Territorialrecht, Humanitäres Recht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations

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Acknowledgements

Part One: Introduction

1. Aim and Scope

2. Basic Concepts and Discourse

Part Two: The Concept of International Protection as a Joint Responsibility of States

3. The Principle of International Cooperation - Aspects of Its Nature and Content

Part Three: Aspects of Physical Protection in Law and Practice

4. Humanitarian Actors and International Law Obligations

5. The Prohibition of Mass Expulsion and Refoulement

6. Mass Expulsion in Practice

7. Summary of Conclusions

Postscript: Protection of Aliens in a Historical Perspective

Annex 1: The Sphere Project, The Humanitarian Charter

Annex 2: Updated UNHCR Guidelines for the Humanitarian Evacuation Programme of Kosovar Refugees in FYROM, Extracts

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Index