The Right to Refugee Status and the Internal Protection Alternative: What Does the Law Say?

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The Future of Refugee Law: RLI Working Paper Series Special Edition (Papers 16–22)

Contents 16. International refugee law – yesterday, today, but tomorrow? - Guy S. Goodwin-Gill (page 1) 17. The universal asylum system and the 2016 New York Declaration: towards an improved ‘global compact’ on refugees? - Terje Einarsen and Marthe Engedahl (page 10) 18. The origins of ‘burden sharing’ in the contemporary refugee protection regime - Claire Inder (page 25) 19. Bilateral resettlement agreements: any promising future for expanding refugee protection space? A case study of the Guantanamo ex-detainees seeking asylum in Central Asia - Khalida Azhigulova (page 42) 20. Non-refoulement under the Inter-American Human Rights System - Rodolfo Marques (page 58) 21. Resettlement mission: under international law, can the Security Council issue resolutions obligating states to resettle displaced persons? - Margarita Fourer (page 70) 22. The European Union Temporary Protection Directive: an example of solidarity in law but not in practice – a review of temporary protection in the European Union (1990–2015) - John Koo (page 96

New Frontiers of International Criminal Law: Towards a Concept of Universal Crimes

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Decline of International Refugee Law?

"Maybe the answer is still 'blowing in the wind' - we don't know yet what will happen. But it is possible that with the Global Compact and the follow-up mechanisms we are moving to a new stage - that international refugee law might eventually become at least a young adult. This means that I'm still cautiously optimistic about the future of international refugee law.

Accidents, Agency and Asylum: Constructing the Refugee Subject

Refugee law demands that the asylum seeker demonstrate an extremely limited and distorted form of agency that is encapsulated within the legal definition of the refugee. Such a framework also denies the role of the accidental in the refugee experience. I argue that the problem lies at the heart of the legal form, as constructed under capitalism. The sans-papiers show us the potential for refugees themselves to reconstruct a subjectivity that transcends the distorted form of agency and the false dichotomy between the accidental and agency found in law, through their rejection of legal definitions and the re-emergence of themselves as political subjects