Human Rights and the Refugee Definition : Comparative Legal Practice and Theory.

Intro -- Human Rights and the Refugee Definition: Comparative Legal Practice and Theory -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- 1: Introduction: Interpreting the Refugee Definition via Human Rights Standards -- 2: Give Way to the Right: The Evolving Use of Human Rights in New Zealand Refugee Status Determination -- 3: Island Nation: The Impact of International Human Rights Law on Australian Refugee Law -- 4: The Human Rights Bases of Refugee Protection in Canada -- 5: International Human Rights and us Refugee Law: Synergies and Contradictions -- 6: International Human Rights and Refugee Law: The United Kingdom -- 7: Refugee Law Jurisprudence from Germany and Human Rights: Cutting Edge or Chilling Effect? -- 8: The Search for the Outer Edges of Non-refoulement in Europe: Exceptionality and Flagrant Breaches -- 9: Human Rights in Refugee Protection in Brazil -- 10: Economic Migrant or Person in Need of Protection? Socio-Economic Rights and Persecution in International Refugee Law -- 11: An Enabling Interpretation of the Refugee Convention: Determination of Refugee Status in Light of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities -- 12: The Right to Refugee Status and the Internal Protection Alternative: What Does the Law Say? -- 13: [En]gendering International Refugee Protection: Are We There Yet? -- 14: Defining Refugees: Persecution, Surrogacy and the Human Rights Paradigm -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

In Human Rights and the Refugee Definition, Burson and Cantor bring together over a dozen contributions that add a fine-grained comparative perspective to the debate on whether, or how, interpretation of the refugee definition should take account of human rights law.

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