Concealment Controversy - Sexual Orientation, Discretion Reasoning Scope of Refugee Protection

This book interrogates the concealment controversy in refugee law. It examines how asylum claims are rejected on the basis that the claimant behave 'discreetly' in their country of origin and explores the resilience of such reasoning in claims on the grounds of sexual orientation and in other contexts.

List of contents

1. The concealment controversy: An introduction; 2. Unpacking the controversy: theory and methods; Part I. Tracing 'Discretion' Reasoning: 3. Rejecting 'discretion': A turning point?; 4. Manifestly asserted: France; 5. Irreversibly determined: Germany; 6. Singled out: Spain; Part II. Exploring the Limits of Protection: 7. Drawing lines: Distinguishing protected groups from persecuted groups; 8. Mind the gap: Particular social group and the limits of protection; 9. Human rights: messing with the definition; 10. Conundrums, paradoxes and productive instability.

About the author

Janna Wessels is Assistant Professor at the Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She has held research posts at the law faculties of UTS Sydney and Giessen University. Her main research interests are in the areas of migration law, human rights and refugee protection.

Summary

This book interrogates the concealment controversy in refugee law. It examines how asylum claims are rejected on the basis that the claimant behave 'discreetly' in their country of origin and explores the resilience of such reasoning in claims on the grounds of sexual orientation and in other contexts.

Foreword

An examination of the concealment controversy in international refugee law.

Product details

• Authors: Janna Wessels, Janna (Vrije Universiteit Wessels
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2023
• EAN: 9781108940351
• ISBN: 978-1-108-94035-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, International Relations, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, comparative law, Human rights, civil rights, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, International Organisations & Institutions