Refugee Dignity in Protracted Exile: Rights, Capabilities and Legal Empowerment

ISBN-13: 9781032082882 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 220 str.

Anna Lise Purkey

Opis

This book investigates how effective human rights and the inherent dignity of refugees can be secured in situations of protracted exile and encampment.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Exclusion of Long-term Refugees from the Law: Creating Situations of Protracted Rights-"less"-ness  2. The State-Refugee Fiduciary Relationship: The Legal Obligation to Secure Human Rights-based Capabilities  3. A Challenge to Power: Legal Empowerment as an Enabling Central Capability  4. The Faces of Legal Empowerment in Protracted Refugee Situations  5. Critical Engagement: Adopting a Participatory Approach to Legal Empowerment  Conclusion

O autorze

Anna Lise Purkey is Summer Course Director and Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, Toronto