Angus Francis, Rowena Maguire

Protection of Refugees and Displaced Persons in the Asia Pacific Region

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores regional developments in the enforcement of international refugee protection and displaced persons protection in the Asia Pacific region. Drawing on their expertise across a number of jurisdictions, the contributors assess the challenges confronting the implementation of international law in the region, as well as new opportunities for extending protection norms into national and regional dialogues. The case studies span key jurisdictions across the region and include a comparative analysis with China, Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Australia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781138254640
• ISBN-10: 1138254649
• Artikelnr.: 57044228

Autorenporträt

Angus Francis is the Principal Solicitor at the Refugee and Immigration Legal Service in Brisbane and an Adjunct Professor to the Faculty of Law at the Queensland University of Technology. He has taught immigration and refugee law to undergraduate and postgraduate students at various Australian universities for over a decade. His research in the area has been published in a number of refereed journals including the International Journal of Refugee Law, the Immigration and Nationality Law Review, the Melbourne University Law Review, the Australian Journal of Human Rights, the Alternative Law Journal, and the Australian International Law Journal. He has consulted on Australia's asylum policy to major political parties, international organizations and Senate inquiries, and has worked as a volunteer migration agent and solicitor at the Refugee and Immigration Legal Service (previously SBICLS) on and off since 1990. He was a visiting fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford University, in 1996-1997 and 2003. His doctoral thesis examining refugee status determination in Australia and other jurisdictions was completed at ANU. Rowena Maguire is a Lecturer in Queensland University of Technology's Law Faculty and a research affiliate at the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation research. Rowena's principal research interests and publications concern international climate and forest regulation and indigenous and community groups rights and responsibilities in connection with environmental management. She teaches law in context, international law and environmental law within the law school at QUT. In addition Rowena has worked on a number of donor-funded consultancy projects designing and delivering environmental training programs for groups from Kenya, China, Vietnam and the Pacific.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Shifting Powers: Protection of Refugees and Displaced Persons in
the Asia Pacific Region, Angus Francis, Rowena Maguire; Chapter 2
Responsibility, Regionalism and Refugees: What Lessons for Australia? 1
This research was supported under the Australian Research Council's
Discovery Projects funding scheme (project number 120102224). The author
also thanks Mr Tristan Harley for reviewing the paper, for additional
research and for translation of documents from Spanish., Penelope Mathew;
Chapter 3 Civil Society and the Fight for Refugee Rights in the Asia
Pacific Region 1 Some parts of this chapter are revised and updated
versions of content in S Taylor, 'Sharing responsibility for asylum seekers
and refugees in the Asia Pacific region' in S. Juss (ed.), The Ashgate
Research Companion to Migration Theory and Policy (Ashgate 2013), Savitri
Taylor; Chapter 4 The Search for Protection in Southeast Asia, Taya Hunt,
Nikola Errington; Chapter 5 Refugee Protection in China: The Issue of
Citizenship and Potential Solutions, Liang Shuying; Chapter 6 Prospects for
Refugee Rights in Hong Kong: Towards the Legalization and Expansion of
Protection from Refoulement, Kelley Loper; Chapter 7 Migration and the
Refugee Regime in Malaysia: Implications for a Regional Solution, Amarjit
Kaur; Chapter 8 Challenges and Opportunities in Respecting International
Refugee Law in Indonesia, Bhatara Ibnu Reza; Chapter 9 Irregular Migration,
Refugee Protection and the 'Malaysian Solution', Peter Billings, Anthony
Cassimatis, Marissa Dooris; Chapter 10 Revisiting the Concept of Protection
in International Refugee Law: Implications of the Protracted Refugee
Situation on the Thai-Myanmar Border, Akiko Okudaira, Hitoshi Nasu; Chapter
11 Internally Displaced Persons in Northern Thailand: Involuntary
Relocation and the Need for Regulation, Photchanat Intaramanon; Chapter 12
The International Regulation of Persons Displaced by Climate Change, Rowena
Maguire, Louise Kruger; Chapter 13 Conceptualising Climate-Induced
Displacement in Bangladesh, Mostafa Mahmud Naser;