Refugees, democracy and the law: political rights at the margins of the state

Who is a refugee? -- Who decides who is a refugee? -- Citizenship and the claiming of rights -- Democracy between the need for institutions and demands of inclusion -- Institutions of refugees' political participation -- The role of associative rights for refugees' political voice -- Human...

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Main Author: Schmalz, Dana 1987- (Author)
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York Routledge [2020]
Series:Law and migration
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:Who is a refugee? -- Who decides who is a refugee? -- Citizenship and the claiming of rights -- Democracy between the need for institutions and demands of inclusion -- Institutions of refugees' political participation -- The role of associative rights for refugees' political voice -- Humanitarian government and the political membership of refugees -- Representation of refugees in international forums
"The book provides an in-depth discussion of questions relating to democratic theory in relation to refugee law. The work introduces readers to the evolution of refugee law and its core issues, as well as central lines in the debate about democracy and migration. Bringing together these fields, the book links theoretical considerations and legal analysis. Based on its specific understanding of the refugee concept, it offers a reconstruction of refugee law as constantly confronted with the challenge of how to secure rights to those who have no voice in the democratic process. In this reconstruction, the book highlights on the one hand the need to look beyond the legal regulations for understanding the challenges in current refugee protection. It is also the structural lack of political voice, the book argues, which shapes the refugee's situation. At the same time, it opposes a critique that views law as mere expression of power and does not adequately capture the dynamics inside the law"--
Item Description:Based on author's thesis - Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:ix, 173 Seiten
ISBN:9780367461676

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