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1 online resource (399 pages) |
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Fragmented State Power and Forced Migration; CONTENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION; 1.1. Setting the Scene; 1.2. The Research Questions and Approaches; 1.3. The Structure of the Book; CHAPTER TWO: NORMATIVE FOUNDATIONS OF THE SYSTEM OF INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION IN EUROPE; 2.1. Introductory Remarks; 2.2. The Foundations of the System of Protectionof Forced Migrants: The Refugee Convention; 2.2.1. Ambiguity and Interpretation of the Refugee Defijinition; 2.2.1.1. On the Interpretation of Human Rights Treaties. |
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2.2.1.2. On the Interpretation of the Refugee Convention2.3. Extension of Protection Obligations: Non-refoulement, the European Convention on Human Rights and Immigration Control; 2.3.1. The ECHR and Immigration Control; 2.3.1.1. The ECHR and Expulsion; 2.3.1.2. The ECHR and Detention for the Purposes of Immigration Control; 2.3.1.3. The ECHR and Implicit Standards on Treatment of Immigrants: The Protection of Private and Family Life and Non-Refoulement; 2.4. The Qualification Directive and the Evolving Regional Understanding of the Concepts of 'Refugee' and 'Subsidiary Protection' |
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2.4.1. A Brief Outline of the History of the CommonEuropean Asylum System2.4.2. The Qualifijication Directive: Context, Purpose and Content; 2.4.3. On the Interrelationship of the Qualifijication Directive, the Refugee Convention and the ECHR; 2.5. Concluding Observations; CHAPTER THREE: NON-STATE ACTORS AND THE REFUGEE DEFINITION; 3.1. Introductory Remarks; 3.2. On the Notion of Persecution; 3.2.1. Persecution as 'Unendurability'; 3.2.2. Human Rights Approaches to Persecution; 3.2.2.1. Persecution as "Severe Violation of Basic Human Rights." |
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3.2.2.2. Persecution as "Sustained or Systematic Violation of Basic HumanRights Demonstrative of a Failure of State Protection"3.2.2.3. Recognizing Gender-Specifijic Violence as a Human Rights Violation; 3.2.2.4. Recognizing Gender-Specifijic Violence as Persecution; 3.2.3. Human Rights as Descriptive Indicators in Constructing the Notion of Persecution; 3.3. Lack of Protection as an Element of the Refugee Character; 3.3.1. Accountability versus Protection; 3.3.1.1. The Pre-Qualifijication Directive Period and the Divergence of Approaches; 3.3.1.2. The Accountability Approach. |
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3.3.1.3. Protection Approaches3.3.1.3.1. Refugee Protection as Surrogate Protection; 3.3.1.3.2. The Meaning of 'Protection' in the Refugee Defijinition; 3.3.1.3.3. Refugee Protection as Protection Entailing Complementary and Surrogate Elements; 3.3.1.4. Lack of Domestic Protection as an Element of Well-Founded Fear; 3.4. The Nexus Requirement; 3.4.1. The Nexus, Non-State Actors and Situations of Large-Scale Violence; 3.4.2. The Nexus, Non-State Actors and 'Private Harm'; 3.4.2.1. Which Convention Ground?; 3.5. The Internal Protection Alternative; 3.6. The Actors of Protection. |
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3.7. Concluding Observations on the Refugee Definition. |
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Drawing extensively on international and European law, international and national case law, as well as academic writings, this study offers a comprehensive and critical analysis on the issue of non-state actors in refugee law. |
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Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Europe.
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Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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Europe. |
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Asylum, Right of -- Europe.
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Asylum, Right of. |
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Forced migration -- Europe.
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Forced migration. |
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Non-state actors (International relations) -- Europe.
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Non-state actors (International relations) |
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Human rights -- Europe.
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Human rights. |
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Electronic books.
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Human rights. |
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Print version: Nykänen, Eeva. Fragmented State Power and Forced Migration : A Study on Non-State Actors in Refugee Law. Leiden : BRILL, ©2012 9789004228849 |
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9789004228856 (electronic book) |
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9004228853 (electronic book) |
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