Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations in Regard to Refugees and Migrants
In: (Book chapter, forthcoming in Gibney, Krajewski and Vandenhole (eds.) Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations, Routledge 2021)
In: (Book chapter, forthcoming in Gibney, Krajewski and Vandenhole (eds.) Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations, Routledge 2021)
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In: International journal of refugee law, Band 32, Heft 2, S. 181-199
ISSN: 1464-3715
Abstract
Current challenges to the traditionally privileged position of law in both refugee policy and refugee studies invite scholars to consider carefully the approach we take to our craft. This article argues that refugee law scholarship is surrounded by thin walls, as researchers broker the 'dual imperative' to simultaneously advance knowledge and protection in a field heavily influenced by policy interests and networks of practitioners that actively take part in, and promote, scholarly production. These close links between the field and the policy world continue to shape research agendas, methodologies, and scholarly positions. This article draws from Bourdieusian field theory and legal sociology to offer a prism through which to look at the forces that influence refugee law research and to consider their implications for scholarship. It is argued that greater sensitivity to the underlying dynamics of our profession is essential, not only to ensure more inclusivity in the community of scholars and expand the current canon of refugee law, but ultimately to sustain claims to policy relevance.
In: Forthcoming in German Law Journal 21:3, 2020
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In: Gammeltoft-Hansen , T , Bergman Rosamond , A , Hamza , M , Hearn , J , ramasar , V & Rydström , H 2020 , ' The Case for Interdisciplinary Crises Studies ' , Global Discourse: An interdisciplinary journal of current affairs . https://doi.org/10.1332/204378920X15802967811683
Alarming reports on crises are appearing and being published on a daily basis in different expressions from climate change, to people's movement and displacement, to armed conflict. Claims to crisis may involve tangible displays of desperate refugees, civilian casualties or persisting, if not, permanent poverty. Moreover, crisis relates to more abstract concepts such as failing democracy, instability in the liberal world order or national and global economic inequality. Crisis, in a sense, seemingly weaves the contemporary world together (Latour 1993), and this trend is reinforced by the frequent occurrence of mediatized or media-tuned global crisis narratives, many of which are currently shaped by populist apocalyptic ideology (Judis 2016). At the same time, crisis refers to social forces that can disrupt life and frame realities in ways, which go beyond prevalent discursive narratives (Jaques 2009; Smith and Vivekananda 2009). Crisis can also serve as a turning point and an opportunity for transformational change in a system (e.g. Polanyi 1944; Walby 2015). In particular, we outline an interdisciplinary approach to crisis as both concept and event, and thus to crisis studies, that moves away from some tendencies to see crisis as ahistorical, but rather emphasises uncertainty and contingency.
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In: Forthcoming in International Journal on Refugee Law, Special Issue on the Global Compacts
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In: International journal of refugee law, Band 30, Heft 4, S. 605-610
ISSN: 1464-3715
In: International Journal of Refugee Law, Band 32(2)
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In: iCourts Working Paper Series No. 152
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In: Revised version published in European Journal of Migration and Law, Band 20(4)
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In: European Journal of Migration and Law, Band 20(4)
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In: Revised version published in Danish Foreign Policy Yearbook, 2017
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In: Routledge studies in human rights
In: Special issue in preparation for the UN Summit on Refugees and Migration, Journal of Migration and Human Security, Vol. 5(1), 2017
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