Refuge Lost
Asylum Law in an Interdependent World

As more restrictive asylum policies are adopted around the world, Ghezelbash explores the implications for the international refugee protection regime.

Daniel Ghezelbash (Author)

9781108441414, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 22 February 2018

234 pages, 1 b/w illus. 4 tables
24.7 x 17.4 x 1.3 cm, 0.44 kg

'Refuge Lost provides an invaluable aid to our understanding of the way in which US, Australian, EU and global refugee policy has evolved over the past 30 years. It is meticulous in its scholarship, exhaustive in its sources and written in a way that will meet the needs of legal scholars, members of the refugee studies community as well as asylum advocates and practitioners.' Jeff Crisp, Journal of Refugee Studies

As Europe deals with a so-called 'refugee crisis', Australia's harsh border control policies have been suggested as a possible model for Europe to copy. Key measures of this system such as long-term mandatory detention, intercepting and turning boats around at sea, and the extraterritorial processing of asylum claims were actually used in the United States long before they were adopted in Australia. The book examines the process through which these policies spread between the United States and Australia and the way the courts in each jurisdiction have dealt with the measures. Daniel Ghezelbash's innovative interdisciplinary analysis shows how policies and practices that 'work' in one country might not work in another. This timely book is a must-read for those interested in preserving the institution of asylum in a volatile international and domestic political climate.

1. Introduction
2. Managing asylum seeker flows in the 21st-Century
3. Long-term mandatory immigration detention
4. Maritime interdiction
5. Extraterritorial processing
6. International law
7. Lessons for other jurisdictions
Appendix.

Subject Areas: International human rights law [LBBR], Comparative law [LAM]