Gender in Refugee Law: From the Margins to the Centre

Authors

Efrat Arbel, Allard School of Law at the University of British ColumbiaFollow
Catherine Dauvergne, Allard School of Law at the University of British ColumbiaFollow
Jenni Millbank

Author Notes

Current Faculty [Efrat Arbel] & Current Faculty [Catherine Dauvergne]

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Description

Questions of gender have strongly influenced the development of international refugee law over the last few decades. This volume assesses the progress toward appropriate recognition of gender-related persecution in refugee law. It documents the advances made following intense advocacy around the world in the 1990s, and evaluates the extent to which gender has been successfully integrated into refugee law.

Evaluating the research and advocacy agendas for gender in refugee law ten years beyond the 2002 UNHCR Gender Guidelines, the book investigates the current status of gender in refugee law. It examines gender-related persecution claims of both women and men, including those based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and explores how the development of an anti-refugee agenda in many Western states exponentially increases vulnerability for refugees making gendered claims. The volume includes contributions from scholars and members of the advocacy community that allow the book to examine conceptual and doctrinal themes arising at the intersection of gender and refugee law, and specific case studies across major Western refugee-receiving nations. The book will be of great interest and value to researchers and students of asylum and immigration law, international politics, and gender studies.

[From Gender in Refugee Law: From the Margins to the Centre - 1st Edition -]

ISBN

9781138670419, 9780415839426, 9780203771457

Publication Date

2014

Publisher

Routledge

City

London

Keywords

Population Geography, Asylum & Immigration Law, Public International Law, Socio-Legal Studies - Gender & Sexuality, Migration & Diaspora, Gender Studies, Human Geography, Geography, Law, International Law - Law Socio-Legal Studies, International Relations, Politics & International Relations, Sociology & Social Policy, Social Sciences

Disciplines

Law