The Rights of Refugees under International Law

Product Description
Do states have a duty to assimilate refugees to their own citizens? Are refugees entitled to freedom of movement, to be allowed to work, to have access to public welfare programs, or to be reunited with family members? Indeed, is there even a duty to admit refugees at all? This fundamentally rewritten second edition of the award-winning treatise presents the only comprehensive analysis of the human rights of refugees set by the UN Refugee Convention and international human rights law. It follows the refugee's journey from flight to solution, examining every rights issue both historically and by reference to the decisions of senior courts from around the world. Nor is this a purely doctrinal book: Hathaway's incisive legal analysis is tested against and applied to hundreds of protection challenges around the world, ensuring the relevance of this book's analysis to responding to the hard facts of refugee life on the ground.
Review
Praise for the First Edition: ‘… painstakingly researched, cogently argued, and beautifully written … An instant classic on the topic of refugee rights.’ Penelope Mathew, American Journal of International Law\nPraise for the First Edition: ‘… the authoritative comprehensive commentary of the Convention. As usual, the strength of Hathaway's approach lies in the precision of his legal analysis.’ Catherine Phuong, Human Rights Law Review\nPraise for the First Edition: ‘If there is one book in the area of international refugee law of which it can be properly said that it is indispensable for everybody, working either in practice or academically with international refugee law, it is this new book by Hathaway … It will remain for a long time the fundamental opus of international refugee law.’ Kay Hailbronner, International Journal of Refugee Law
Book Description
The only comprehensive analysis of international refugee rights, anchored in the hard facts of refugee life around the world.
About the Author
James C. Hathaway is James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law and founding director of the Program in Refugee and Asylum Law, University of Michigan. He is the author of The Law of Refugee Status (1991; 2nd ed. 2014, with M. Foster) and editor of Reconceiving International Refugee Law (1997) and Human Rights and Refugee Law (2015). He is also the founding Editor of Cambridge Asylum and Migration Studies.