Climate change, disasters, and the refugee convention:

Climate Change, Disasters and the Refugee Convention is concerned with refugee status determination (RSD) in the context of disasters and climate change. It demonstrates that the legal predicament of people who seek refugee status in this connection has been inconsistently addressed by judicial bodi...

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Beteilige Person: Scott, Matthew 1978- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Hochschulschrift/Dissertation Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, USA ; Port Melbourne, Australia ; New Delhi, India ; Singapore Cambridge University Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge asylum and migration studies
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108784580
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108784580
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108784580
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108784580
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108784580
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108784580
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108784580
Zusammenfassung:Climate Change, Disasters and the Refugee Convention is concerned with refugee status determination (RSD) in the context of disasters and climate change. It demonstrates that the legal predicament of people who seek refugee status in this connection has been inconsistently addressed by judicial bodies in leading refugee law jurisdictions, and identifies epistemological as well as doctrinal impediments to a clear and principled application of international refugee law. Arguing that RSD cannot safely be performed without a clear understanding of the relationship between natural hazards and human agency, the book draws insights from disaster anthropology and political ecology that see discrimination as a contributory cause of people's differential exposure and vulnerability to disaster-related harm. This theoretical framework, combined with insights derived from the review of existing doctrinal and judicial approaches, prompts a critical revision of the dominant human rights-based approach to the refugee definition
Beschreibung:Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Lunds universitet Juridiska fakulteten, 2018) issued under title: Refugee status determination in the context of 'natural' disasters and climate change : a human rights-based approach
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 184 Seiten)
ISBN:9781108784580
DOI:10.1017/9781108784580