Rethinking refugee law

by Niraj Nathwani

Refugee law faces a serious crisis in Europe. This crisis highlights the need to explain the following questions: What is the relationship between refugee law and immigration policy? And how much immigration do States need to tolerate for moral and practical reasons even if they do not wish any immigration? The general legal principle of necessity offers a useful theoretical basis for refugee law. Necessity explains the conditions under which it would be unfair to fight off unwanted immigrants by deportation and punishment. Necessity also explains the conditions under which a restrictuve immigration policy is not feasible at a reasonable cost versus desperate individuals. It follows that necessity overrules a restrictive immigration policy and qualifies as a robust explanation of the purpose of fair refugee policy. This study explores the consequences of the theory of necessity for the interpretation of key concepts of refugee law (persecution, well-founded fear, reasons of persecution, asylum) and concludes that a generous refugee practice can be conceived and logically justified even if a restrictive immigration policy is a political reality.

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[目次]

  • The purpose of refugee law
  • current strategies to restrict the scope of the refugee concept
  • the necessity approach to interpreting the refugee concept
  • asylum.

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書名 Rethinking refugee law
著作者等 Nathwani Niraj (Legal Adviser European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophopbia Vienna Austria)
Nathwani Niraj
シリーズ名 Refugees and human rights
出版元 Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
刊行年月 c2003
ページ数 xi, 168 p.
大きさ 25 cm
ISBN 9041120025
NCID BA63625801
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言語 英語
出版国 オランダ
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