States, the Law and Access to Refugee Protection - Fortresses and Fairness

This timely volume seeks to examine two of the most pertinent current challenges faced by asylum seekers in gaining access to international refugee protection: first, the obstacles to physical access to territory and, second, the barriers to accessing a quality asylum procedure - which the editors have termed ''access to justice''.To address these aims, the book brings together leading commentators from a range of backgrounds, including law, sociology and political science. It also includes contributions from NGO practitioners. This allows the collection to offer interdisciplinary analysis and to incorporate both theoretical and practical perspectives on questions of immense contemporary significance. While the examination offers a strong focus on European legal and policy developments, the book also addresses the issues in different regions (Europe, North America, the Middle East, Africa and Australia). Given the currency of the questions under debate, this book will be essential reading for all scholars in the field of asylum law.>

About the author

Maria O’Sullivan is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law and a Deputy Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University.Dallal Stevens is Associate Professor (Reader) of Law at the University of Warwick.

Product details

• Authors: &apos, Maria O'Sullivan, Maria Stevens O''''sullivan, Dallal Stevens, Dallal O&apos Stevens, Dallal O''''sullivan Stevens, Maria Sullivan
• Assisted by: Maria O'Sullivan (Editor), O'Sullivan Maria (Editor), Dallal Stevens (Editor), Stevens Dallal (Editor)
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.03.2017
• EAN: 9781509901289
• ISBN: 978-1-5099-0128-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Studies in International Law; Studies in International Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / International, LAW / Public, International humanitarian law, Public international law: humanitarian law