Mass Refugee Influx and the Limits of Public International Law

Name: Mass Refugee Influx and the Limits of Public International Law
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By Ann Eggli

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Situations of mass refugee influx represent by their very size and urgency daunting evidence of human suffering and cruelty. Consequently, the level and quality of refugee protection in times of crisis is tested. The choices to be made have to take into due consideration the prevalent conditions and restraints. They will probably always result in compromises. The question is whom or what the compromises are about? The focus in the present volume has been set on a detailed examination of some legal preconceptions commonly found in situations of mass refugee in-migration. The author concludes that situations when refugees arrive en masse do not, as a rule, qualify as a public emergency that threatens the life of the nation under contemporary international human rights law, and that mass expulsion of refugees as an emergency measure is prohibited at all times when this entails the risk of violating rights immune to derogation.

Product details

Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 320
Release Date:: 2002-08-28
Publication Date:: 2002-08-01
Publisher:: Brill
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 9041119213
ISBN13:: 9789041119216
Weight:: 653 g
Height:: 155 cm
Width:: 235 cm
Thickness:: 25 cm

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