States, the Law and Access to Refugee Protection: Fortresses and Fairness

Description

This timely volume seeks to examine two of the most pertinent current challenges faced by asylum seekers in gaining access to international refugee protection: first, the obstacles to physical access to territory and, second, the barriers to accessing a quality asylum procedure - which the editors have termed 'access to justice'. To address these aims, the book brings together leading commentators from a range of backgrounds, including law, sociology and political science. It also includes contributions from NGO practitioners. This allows the collection to offer interdisciplinary analysis and to incorporate both theoretical and practical perspectives on questions of immense contemporary significance. While the examination offers a strong focus on European legal and policy developments, the book also addresses the issues in different regions (Europe, North America, the Middle East, Africa and Australia). Given the currency of the questions under debate, this book will be essential reading for all scholars in the field of asylum law.

Maria O'Sullivan is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law and a Deputy Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University. Dallal Stevens is Associate Professor (Reader) of Law at the University of Warwick.

The broad geographical scope of this book, its thought-provoking insights on different legal contexts, the noteworthy capacity of the editors to trace the common thread that ties all these different policies and practices of migration control together, makes this volume of high relevance and interest for lawyers, students, scholars and policy-makers in different regions of the world and versed in different legal traditions. -- Dr Mariagiulia Giuffre, Edge Hill University * Journal of Immigration, Asylum & Nationality Law * The lasting impression left by the collection is that it is a very powerful documentation of the diverse types of obstacles facing asylum seekers trying to access asylum procedures around the world. -- Hugo Storey * International Journal of Refugee Law * The breadth of legal frameworks and state practices covered in the volume gives it a broad appeal... Although it is valuable as a harmonious yet diverse collection of interventions, the chapters are strong enough to be free-standing... It is an engaging volume that will be of use to a wide audience interested in access to asylum justice. -- Katharine T Weatherhead * International Community Law Review * [T]his volume will be of great interest to researchers of asylum law and policy, students, policy makers, advocates, and NGOs... the pertinent observations and trends identi?ed in this volume remain highly relevant in the current climate, and the future of 'access to asylum justice', as called for by the editors and contributors to this volume, remains an ever-important area of research and study. -- Sarah Singer, Refugee Law Initiative * Migration Studies *