Global Changes in Asylum Regimes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Danièle Joly

   Pages 1-14

3. Certain Violence, Uncertain Protection

   • Mark Gibney

   Pages 15-37

4. New Asylum Regimes or a World without Asylum? The Myth of International Protection

   • Louis Gentile

   Pages 38-47

5. Temporary Protection and the Bosnian Crisis: a Cornerstone of the New European Regime

   • Danièle Joly

   Pages 48-78

6. Lessons from the Kosovo Refugee Crisis: Innovations in Protection and Burden-Sharing

   • Michael Barutciski, Astri Suhrke

   Pages 79-104

7. Asylum in Europe: Underpinning Parameters

   • Dennis de Jong

   Pages 105-122

8. Return, Human Rights and International Involvement: Refugees as Social and Political Actors, the Guatemalan Case

   • Huberto Estrada-Soberanisl

   Pages 123-136

9. Refugee Women: a Gendered and Political Analysis of the Refugee Experience

   • Agnès Callamard

   Pages 137-153

10. Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: Africa’s Liability for the Next Millennium

    • John O. Oucho

    Pages 154-178

11. What Was Refugee Status? Legislating the Changing Practice of Refugee Law

    • Rosemary Preston

    Pages 179-203

12. Human Rights Organisations and the Formation of Refugees Regimes

    • Morten Kjaerum

    Pages 204-214

13. Back Matter

    Pages 215-224

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This book examines convergent trends in asylum regimes around the world. It covers the main regions of the world where asylum is a critical problem: Europe, Africa and Central America. It also looks at the major issues: human rights; non-governmental organisation involvement; gender; return; comprehensive policy; European Union harmonisation; international intervention and temporary protection.

• Asylum
• Europe
• European Union (EU)
• gender
• government
• human rights
• intervention
• Policy
• violence

'this is an excellent collection of bite-sized, interesting and well researched pieces...' - Emma Haddad, Nations and Nationalism - Volume 10 Part 4

• Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick, UK

  Danièle Joly

MICHAEL BARUTCISKI, Barreau du Québec, Canada AGNÈS CALLAMARD, Head of the Office of the Secretary General, Amnesty International, UK CORNELIS D. DE JONG, Co-Ordinator, Global Forum on Fighting Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity II, Ministry of Justice, Netherlands LOUIS GENTILE, Refugee Law Training Officer, UNHCR, UK MARK GIBNEY, Belk Distinguished Professor, University of North Caroline-Ashville, USA MORTEN KJAERUM, Director, Danish Centre for Human Rights, Denmark JOHN O. OUCHO, Professor of Population and Sustainable Development, University of Botswana ROSEMARY PRESTON, Director, International Centre for Education in Development, Department of Continuing Education, University of Warwick, UK HUBERTO ESTRADA-SOVERANIS, Human and Indigenous Rights Lawyer, Guatemala ASTRI SUHRKE, Senior Research Fellow, Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway

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