This Handbook draws together leading and emerging scholars to provide a comprehensive critical analysis of international refugee law. This book provides an account as well as a critique of the status quo, setting the agenda for future research in the field.

Part I. International Refugee Law: Reflections on the Scholarly Field 1: International Refugee Law in the Early Years 2: Race, Refugees, and International Law 3: A Feminist Appraisal of International Refugee Law 4: Queering International Refugee Law 5: The Politics of International Refugee Law 6: The Ethics of International Refugee Protection 7: Refugees as Migrants 8: The Intersection of International Refugee Law and International Statelessness LawPart II. Sources 9: The Architecture of the UN Refugee Convention and Protocol 10: The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 11: Moving Towards an Integrated Approach of Refugee Law and Human Rights Law 12: International Humanitarian Law and Refugee Protection 13: Customary Refugee Law 14: National Constitutions and Refugee ProtectionPart III. Regional Regimes 15: Regional Refugee Regimes: Africa 16: Regional Refugee Regimes: North America 17: Regional Refugee Regimes: Latin America 18: Regional Refugee Regimes: Middle East 19: Regional Refugee Regime: Europe 20: Regional Refugee Regimes: Central Asia 21: Regional Refugee Regimes: East Asia 22: Regional Refugee Regimes: South Asia 23: Regional Refugee Regimes: Southeast Asia 24: Refugee Regimes: OceaniaPart IV. Access to Protection and International Responsibility-Sharing 25: Sharing of Responsibilities for the International Protection of Refugees 26: Protection at Sea and the Denial of Asylum 27: Extraterritorial Migration Control and Deterrence 28: The Evolution of Safe Third Country Law and Practice 29: Human Smuggling and Refugees 30: Human Trafficking and Refugees 31: Refugee Status Determination 32: Asylum Procedures 33: Credibility, Reliability, and Evidential AssessmentPart IV. The Scope of Refugee Protection 34: The International and Regional Refugee Definitions Compared 35: UNRWA and Palestine Refugees 36: Complementary Protection 37: Temporary Protection and Temporary Refuge 38: The Internal Protection Alternative 39: Exclusion 40: Women in Refugee Jurisprudence 41: Child Refugees 42: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Refugee Claims 43: Protecting Refugees with Disabilities 44: Stateless Refugees 45: Conflict Refugees 46: Displacement in the context of Climate Change and Disasters 47: Internal DisplacementPart V. Refugee Rights and Realities 48: The Right to Asylum 49: National Constitutions and the Right to Asylum 50: Non-refoulement 51: Non-penalization and non-criminalization 52: The Right to Liberty 53: The Right to Work 54: The Right to Education 55: The Right to Family Reunification 56: The Digital Transformation of Refugee GovernancePart VI.  The End of Refugeehood - Cessation and Durable Solutions 57: Cessation 58: Refugee Naturalization and Integration 59: Reimagining Voluntary Repatriation 60: Resettlement 61: Onward MigrationPart VII. Accountability for Displacement and Refugee Rights Violations 62: Restitution and Other Remedies for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons 63: The Responsibility of Armed Groups concerning Displacement 64: The Accountability of International Organizations in Refugee and Migration Law 65: Border Crimes as Crimes against Humanity

"If you are interested in widening and deepening your knowledge and understanding of the global system of refugee law and protection, this handbook is an invaluable entry point... The handbook stands as a state of the art review of international refugee law and scholarship by some of the most prominent and well respected writers and thinkers in the field." - Colin Yeo, Free Movement

Edited by:Cathryn Costello, Andrew W Mellon Professor of Refugee and Migration Law, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.Michelle Foster, Professor and Director of the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, Melbourne Law School.Jane McAdam ,Scientia Professor and Director, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Sydney.