This timely volume seeks to examine two of the most pertinent current challenges faced by asylum seekers in gaining access to international refugee protection: the obstacles to physical access to territory and the barriers to accessing a quality asylum procedure (access to asylum justice). To address these aims, the book brings together leading commentators from a range of backgrounds, including law, sociology, and political science. It also includes contributions from NGO practitioners. This allows the collection to offer an interdisciplinary analysis and to incorporate both theoretical and...

Sixty years on from the signing of the Refugee Convention, forced migration and refugee movements continue to raise global concerns for hosting states and regions, for countries of origin, for humanitarian organisations on the ground, and, of course, for the refugee. This edited volume is framed around two themes which go to the core of contemporary 'refugeehood': protection and identity. It analyses how the issue of refugee identity is shaped by and responds to the legal regime of refugee protection in contemporary times.

The book investigates the premise that there is a...