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Chinese Refugee Law and Policy
Systematic and critical examination of Chinese refugee law and policy including information acquired from interviews and field visits.
Lili Song (Author)
9781108483988, Cambridge University Press
Hardback, published 26 March 2020
226 pages, 3 b/w illus. 2 maps 1 table
23.5 x 15.7 x 1.6 cm, 0.43 kg
'As Dr Song explains in this book, China has a long and varied experience with refugees, including the Indochinese crisis in the 1970s and 1980s, and more recently from North Korea and Myanmar. A little-known fact is that China has been a party to the Refugee Convention since 1982. This book provides unique and informed insights into China’s response to refugee issues nationally, and as a regional and global actor. It includes contemporary accounts of the responses of the two Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau.’ Susan Kneebone, University of Melbourne
This book is the first to systematically examine Chinese refugee law and policy. It provides in-depth legal and policy analysis and makes recommendations to relevant stakeholders, drawing upon not only existing legal and policy scholarships but also empirical information acquired through field visits and interviews with refugees, former refugees, and staff of governmental and non-governmental organisations working with displaced population. It is a timely response to rapidly growing international interest in and demand for information about Chinese and Asian approaches to refugee protection in academia and the policy sector.
1. Introduction
Part I. Mainland China: 2. Refugees and other displaced foreigners in China
3. The framework: law, policy and institutions
4. The reality: treatment of refugees in China
Part II. Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macau Special Administrative Region: 5. Refugee law and policy in Hong Kong
6. Refugee law and policy in Macau
7. Conclusion and recommendations
Select bibliography
Index.
Subject Areas: Human rights & civil liberties law [LNDC], International human rights law [LBBR], Public international law [LBB], Human rights [JPVH]