Download This PaperMoving towards an Integrated Approach of Refugee Law and Human Rights Law
The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law, C. Costello, M. Foster & J. McAdam (eds), OUP, 2021
19 Pages Posted: 16 Jun 2021
Date Written: June 14, 2021
Abstract
This chapter proposes an integrated approach to refugee protection, whereby human rights law and refugee law are articulated within a comprehensive and coherent framework of analysis. Instead of regarding the two branches of international law as professional silos, this new perspective offers a broader vision of international protection: refugee law and human rights law complement and reinforce each other within one single continuum of protection. When assessed from the broader perspective of international law and its evolution since the adoption of the Refugee Convention, human rights law has shaped, updated and enlarged refugee law to such an extent that the latter has become an integral component of the former.
Keywords: refugee law, human rights law, refoulement, refugee status, asylum seeker, complementarity
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