UID:
almahu_9948247364002882
Format:
1 online resource (xxii, 184 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781108784580 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge asylum and migration studies
Content:
Climate Change, Disasters and the Refugee Convention is concerned with refugee status determination (RSD) in the context of disasters and climate change. It demonstrates that the legal predicament of people who seek refugee status in this connection has been inconsistently addressed by judicial bodies in leading refugee law jurisdictions, and identifies epistemological as well as doctrinal impediments to a clear and principled application of international refugee law. Arguing that RSD cannot safely be performed without a clear understanding of the relationship between natural hazards and human agency, the book draws insights from disaster anthropology and political ecology that see discrimination as a contributory cause of people's differential exposure and vulnerability to disaster-related harm. This theoretical framework, combined with insights derived from the review of existing doctrinal and judicial approaches, prompts a critical revision of the dominant human rights-based approach to the refugee definition.
Note:
Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Lunds universitet Juridiska fakulteten, 2018) issued under title: Refugee status determination in the context of 'natural' disasters and climate change : a human rights-based approach.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2020).
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781108478229
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
Keywords:
Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108784580
URL:
Volltext
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