Janna Wessels (Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit)

The Concealment Controversy

Sexual Orientation, Discretion Reasoning and the Scope of Refugee Protection

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9781108940351
• ISBN-10: 1108940358
• Artikelnr.: 68136084

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.