Protection from Refuge

From Refugee Rights to Migration Management

Kate Ogg

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781316519738
• eBook ISBN: 9781009022088
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Human Rights
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The places in which refugees seek sanctuary are often as dangerous and bleak as the conditions they fled. In response, many travel within and across borders in search of safety. As part of these journeys, refugees are increasingly turning to courts to ask for protection, not from persecution in their homeland, but from a place of 'refuge'. This book is the first global and comparative study of 'protection from refuge' litigation, examining whether courts facilitate or hamper refugee journeys with a particular focus on gender. Drawing on jurisprudence from Africa, Europe, North America and Oceania, Kate Ogg shows that courts have transitioned from adopting robust ideas of refuge to rudimentary ones. This trajectory indicates that courts can play a powerful role in creating more just and equitable refugee protection policies, but have, ultimately, compounded the difficulties inherent in finding sanctuary, perpetuating global inequities in refugee responsibility and rendering refuge elusive.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• 1 Journeys in Search of Refuge
• 2 Refuge as a Concept and a Place
• 3 Using Human and Refugee Rights to Resist Encampment
• 4 Using Human Rights Law to Travel in Search of Refuge in Europe
• 5 Direct Challenges to Regional Containment Instruments
• 6 Seeking Refuge as a Palestinian Refugee
• 7 Resisting the Prospect of Refuge in an IDP Camp
• 8 Elusive Refuge
• Index