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  • Refugee Rights and Policy Wrongs

    A frank, up-to-date guide by experts

    Everyone has the right to seek asylum under international law. However, successive governments in Australia have declared the need to 'stop the boats' whatever the cost, be it human, economic, moral or legal. In this new book, Jane McAdam and Fiona Chong find that Australia's policies towards refugees have hardened since their bestsellingRefugees: Why seeking asylum is legal and Australia's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Refugees

    Why seeking asylum is legal and Australia's policies are not

    Stopping the boats, blocking queue-jumpers, and proving who is a "real" refugee have become national obsessions. Misconceptions about refugees and asylum-seekers seem to be increasing, and governments and media continue to exploit anxieties in the community. This clear-headed book rejects spin and panic to explain what our obligations are and who the refugees and asylum-seekers are. It shows that ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Refugee in International Law

    The status of the refugee in international law, and of everyone entitled to protection, has ever been precarious, not least in times of heightened and heated debate: people have always moved in search of safety, and they always will. In this completely revised and updated edition, the authors cast new light on the refugee definition, the meaning of persecution, including with regard to gender and ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law is a comprehensive, critical work, which analyses the state of research across the refugee law regime as a whole. Drawing together leading and emerging scholars, the Handbook provides both doctrinal and theoretical analyses of international refugee law and practice. It critiques existing law from a variety of normative positions, with several ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • The Global Reach of European Refugee Law

    Europe has the most advanced regional protection regime in the world. The predicted impact of this body of norms, including the new Common European Asylum System, has been widely identified as one that will have a 'ripple effect' beyond the EU. However, very few studies have noted the fact that this regime has already influenced the law and practice of states around the world, for some time. The ... Read more

    $118.89 USD

  • Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International Law

    by Jane McAdam ...
    Displacement caused by climate change is an area of growing concern. With current rises in sea levels and changes to the global climate, it is an issue of fundamental importance to the future of many parts of the world. This book critically examines whether States have obligations to protect people displaced by climate change under international refugee law, international human rights law, and the ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

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  • Kokoda

    75th Anniversary Edition

    ‘an engrossing narrative, beautifully controlled by a master storyteller' Michael McKernan, Sydney Morning HeraldThe bestselling, acclaimed, authoritative account of one of the most famous battles in Australian military history – now established as a classic.For Australians, Kokoda is the iconic battle of World War II, yet few people know just what happened – and just what our troops achieved. In ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of International Human Rights Law

    The Routledge Handbook of International Human Rights Law provides the definitive global survey of the discipline of international human rights law. Each chapter is written by a leading expert and provides a contemporary overview of a significant area within the field.As well as covering topics integral to the theory and practice of international human rights law the volume offers a broader ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Human Rights: International Protection, Monitoring, Enforcement

    Edited by Janusz Symonides ...
    The series of volumes prepared by UNESCO for teaching human rights at higher education level comes to a successful conclusion with the publication of this volume. Human Rights: International Protection, Monitoring, Enforcement takes an institutional approach to the international protection of human rights, examining first the United Nations system, which may be seen as universal, and then ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • The Effectiveness of the UN Human Rights System

    Reform and the Judicialisation of Human Rights

    Series series Human Rights and International Law
    The UN human rights agenda has reached the mature age of 70 years and many UN mechanisms created to implement this agenda are themselves in their middle-age, yet human rights violations are still a daily occurrence around the globe. The scorecard of the UN human rights mechanisms appears impressive in terms of the promotion, spreading of education and engaging States in a dialogue to promote human ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Ashgate Research Companion to Migration Law, Theory and Policy

    Edited by Satvinder S. Juss ...
    Series series Law and Migration
    The Ashgate Research Companion to Migration Law, Theory and Policy complements the already successful Ashgate series Law & Migration, established in 2006 which now has a number of well-regarded monographs to its credit. The purpose of this Companion is to augment that Series, by taking stock of the current state of literature on migration law, theory and policy, and to sketch out the contours of ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • International Migration: A Very Short Introduction

    by Khalid Koser ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Why has international migration become an issue of such intense public and political concern? How closely linked are migrants with terrorist organizations? What factors lie behind the dramatic increase in the number of women migrating? This Very Short Introduction looks at the phenomenon of international human migration -- both legal and illegal -- to reveal that migration actually presents ... Read more

    $7.99 USD