Refugee law's fact-finding crisis : truth, risk, and the wrong mistake / Hilary Evans Cameron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cameron, Hilary Evans, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees--Legal status, laws, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 219 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

At a time when many around the world are fleeing their homes, seeking refugee protection has become a game of chance. Partly to blame is the law that governs how refugee status decision-makers resolve their doubts. This long-neglected branch of refugee law has been growing in the dark, with little guidance from the Refugee Convention and little attention from scholars. By looking closely at the Canadian jurisprudence, Hilary Evans Cameron provides the first full account of what this law is trying to accomplish in a refugee hearing. She demonstrates how a hole in the law's normative foundations is contributing to the dysfunction of one of the world's most respected refugee determination systems, and may well be undermining refugee protection across the globe. The author uses her findings to propose a new legal model of refugee status decision-making.

Contents:

The wrong mistake

Setting the scene

The wrong mistake : sending a refugee home

Resolving doubt in the claimant's favour

The wrong mistake : accepting an unfounded claim

Resolving doubt at the claimant's expense

In the hearing room

A way forward.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Apr 2018).

ISBN:

1-108-64427-9

1-108-55190-4

1-108-56105-5