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International Refugee Law: Where it Comes From, and Where It's Going…1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2017

Guy S. Goodwin-Gill
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Abstract

Despite nearly 100 years of international organization and practice, international refugee law is confronted today with the critical challenges of globalization, securitization and an increasingly mobile world. Large-scale movements have exposed serious cracks in the European project; the EU's stated policy goal seems simply to keep refugees away. Elsewhere, numerous refugee situations are “protracted,” while persistent underdevelopment continues to drive the movement of people between States, in a context in which States appear unable to manage “irregular” migration. If a generous asylum policy is in practice, contingent on well-controlled external borders, can the basic rules of protection survive? Or are asylum and the principle of non-return to persecution (non-refoulement) at risk in a new international legal order? These are the issues addressed below.

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International Journal of Legal Information , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , March 2017 , pp. 24 - 27
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2017 

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Footnotes

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© Guy S. Goodwin-Gill 2017. The author is Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law, Honorary Associate, Refugee Studies Centre, Barrister, Blackstone Chambers, London.

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This is the text of an oral presentation made at International Association of Law Libraries, 35th Annual Course on International Law and Legal Information, Common Law Perspectives in a Global Context, Keble College, Oxford, 31 July–3 August 2016.

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1 This is the text of an oral presentation made at International Association of Law Libraries, 35th Annual Course on International Law and Legal Information, Common Law Perspectives in a Global Context, Keble College, Oxford, 31 July–3 August 2016.