International refugee law and socio-economic rights / refuge from deprivation.
- New York; Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- xlvii, 387 p. : 23 cm.
Contents 1. Introduction Background The Key conceptual challenge: economic migrants versus refugees Challenging the simplistic dichotomy Organization and methodology of analysis 2. A human rights framework for interpreting the refugee convention Part one: the developing human rights framework Part two: justification of the human rights framework The need for universal and objective standard Human Rights as the standard : object and purpose The human rights approach confirmed by context Other rules of international law : promoting coherence Part three : possible objections to the human rights approach Concerns about the legitimacy of the human rights approach Concerns about the workability of the human rights approach Conclusion 3 . Persecution and socio-economic deprivation in refugee law 4 . Rethinking the conceptual approach to socio - economic claims 5. Economic deprivation as the reason for being persecuted 6. Economic disadvantage and the Refugee Conventions grounds
This book explores the legal challenges created by the phenomenon of migration caused by the deprivation of economic and social rights. In Particular, it directly engages with the questions whether the 1951 Convention Relating to Status of Refugee ( Refugee Convention)