Description
| Summary: | "This book addresses the relationship between International Refugee Law and International Human Rights Law. Using international refugee law's analytical turn to human rights as its object of inquiry, it represents a critical intervention into the revisionism that has led to conceptual fragmentation and restrictive practices. Mainstream literature in refugee law reflects a mood of celebration, a narrative of progress which praises the discipline's rescue from obsolescence. This is commonly ascribed to its repositioning alongside human rights law, its veritable rediscovery as an arm of this far greater edifice. By using human rights logic to construct the current legal paradigm and inform us of who qualifies as a refugee, this purportedly lent areas of conceptual uncertainty a set of objective, modern criteria and increased enfranchisement to new, non-traditional claimants"--
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 220 pages) |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| ISBN: | 9781003027393
1003027393
9781000172157
1000172155
9781000172133
1000172139
1000172112
9781000172119 |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 08, 2020). |
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| Biographical or Historical Data: | Romit Bhandari is a lecturer in the Law School at the University of Essex, UK. |
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