‘Marjoleine Zieck has made a major contribution to the field of refugee law through this original, well-researched and analytical study. She demonstrates that existing international refugee law has often been neglected by states and international agencies when refugees are considered for resettlement protection in third states.’

- Terje Einarsen, University of Bergen, Norway,

‘The particular beauty of this book is that its forward-looking prescriptions are anything but rhetorical. Professor Zieck’s prodigious appetite for detail, her determination to unearth the full historical record, and her insistence on learning from past experience allow her to show why it is that a protection-based approach to resettlement represents real logical progress, seamlessly reconciling the valuable lessons learned from a century of resettlement practice to modern legal commitments.’

- From the foreword by James C. Hathaway, University of Michigan Law School, US,

This timely book focuses on one of the so-called “durable solutions to the problem of refugees” that UNHCR has been charged to pursue: resettlement. Resettlement consists of the transfer of refugees from their country of asylum to another state in case of severe protection problems in the country of asylum. States are not obliged to offer resettlement places, and in practice that means that resettlement is run as a discretionary immigration scheme. This book attempts to integrate resettlement in international refugee law.Key to the analysis is understanding what the need for resettlement means: in essence a second country of asylum. The integration of resettlement in international refugee law does not mean an end to the discretion states have; but once the decision has been taken to process UNHCR resettlement referrals, discretion gives way to the applicability of international (refugee) law. Since it is not included in the main refugee treaties, resettlement has so far never been considered in terms of international refugee law with detrimental consequences for the refugees concerned. This book demonstrates that treating resettlement as an outlier is not only out of sync with the international rule of law, but moreover legally untenable.Forward-thinking and incisive, Resettlement as Protection is a fundamental resource for students and scholars of international refugee law, international law, human rights and migration. It is also key reading for resettlement practitioners, lawyers, advocates and activists working in the fields of refugee rights and international law.
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Contents: Foreword 1 A polysemous solution to the problem of refugees 2 Resettlement in the interbellum, the Second World War and its aftermath 3 UNHCR’S resettlement practice from 1951 to 1994: The ad hoc years 4 UNHCR’S resettlement practice from 1995 to 2023: The structured years 5 The resettlement procedure of UNHCR and states 6 Integrating resettlement in international refugee law 7 Summary: Resettlement as part of international refugee law Appendix I: Resettlement figures 1952–2023 Appendix II: Treaties in chronological order Bibliography
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781781004159
Publisert
2024-09-27
Utgiver
Vendor
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
364

Forfatter

Biographical note

Marjoleine Zieck, Professor of International Refugee Law at the Amsterdam Law School, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands