Michelle Foster

International Refugee Law and Socio-Economic Rights

Refuge from Deprivation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, first published in 2007, assesses the ability of the Refugee Convention to encompass socio-economic based claims.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 639g
• ISBN-13: 9780521133364
• ISBN-10: 052113336X
• Artikelnr.: 27077169

Autorenporträt

Michelle Foster is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Research Programme in International Refugee Law at the University of Melbourne.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. A human rights framework for interpreting the Refugee Convention
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 Convention grounds
7. Conclusions.