Law and Migration: Law and Migration
About the Book Series
Migration and its subsets of refugee and asylum policy are rising up the policy agenda at national and international level. Current controversies underline the need for rational and informed debate of this widely misrepresented and little understood area. Law and Migration contributes to this debate by establishing a monograph series to encourage discussion and help to inform policy in this area. The series provides a forum for leading new research principally from the Law and Legal Studies area but also from related social sciences. The series is broad in scope, covering a wide range of subjects and perspectives.
Irregular Migration, Refugee Status and the Law: Protection from Dangerous Migratory Journeys
1st Edition
By Maja Grundler
August 29, 2025
Through an investigation of the protection needs of ‘irregularised migrants’, this book offers a novel approach to the phenomenon of irregular migration by reframing it as a matter of refugee law. Thousands of people have died, disappeared and suffered mental and physical harm on their dangerous ...
Protection of Human Life at Sea in International Law: Rescuing Maritime Migrants
1st Edition
By Aphrodite Papachristodoulou
May 30, 2025
The law of the sea imposes a long-established duty to rescue persons in distress, which connotes one of the most important tools in safeguarding safety of life at sea. Other rules of international law, namely, international human rights and refugee law also come into play in drawing the legal ...
Inside Asylum Appeals: Access, Participation and Procedure in Europe
1st Edition
By Nick Gill, Nicole Hoellerer, Jessica Hambly, Daniel Fisher
August 14, 2024
Appeals are a crucial part of Europe’s asylum system but they remain poorly understood. Building on insights and perspectives from legal geography and socio-legal studies, this book shines a light on what takes place during asylum appeals and puts forward suggestions for improving their fairness ...
Persecution, International Refugee Law and Refugees: A Feminist Approach
1st Edition
By Mathilde Crépin
May 06, 2022
This book explores the ambit of the notion of persecution in international law and its relevance in the current geopolitical context, more specifically for refugee women. The work analyses different models for interpreting the notion of persecution in international refugee law through a ...
Refugees, Democracy and the Law: Political Rights at the Margins of the State
1st Edition
By Dana Schmalz
May 06, 2022
The book provides an in-depth discussion of democratic theory questions in relation to refugee law. The work introduces readers to the evolution of refugee law and its core issues today, as well as central lines in the debate about democracy and migration. Bringing together these fields, the book ...
Human Rights and The Revision of Refugee Law
1st Edition
By Romit Bhandari
April 29, 2022
This book addresses the relationship between International Refugee Law and International Human Rights Law. Using international refugee law’s analytical turn to human rights as its object of inquiry, it represents a critical intervention into the revisionism that has led to conceptual fragmentation ...
Implementing EU Mobility Partnerships: Putting Soft Law into Practice
1st Edition
By Fanny Tittel-Mosser
April 29, 2022
This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the effectiveness of Mobility Partnerships and their consequences for third countries. Mobility partnerships between the EU and third countries are usually viewed as reflecting asymmetric power relations where development aid, trade relations and ...
Environmental Change, Forced Displacement and International Law: from legal protection gaps to protection solutions
1st Edition
By Isabel M. Borges
June 30, 2020
This book explores the increasing concern over the extent to which those suffering from forced cross-border displacement as a result of environmental change are protected under international human rights law. Formally they are not entitled to admission or stay in a third state country, a situation ...
The Ashgate Research Companion to Migration Law, Theory and Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Satvinder S. Juss
June 17, 2019
This book aims to augment the Ashgate series by taking stock of the current state of migration law literature. It also aims to sketch out the contours of its future long-term development, in what is now by all accounts a vastly expanded research agenda....
Bureaucracy, Law and Dystopia in the United Kingdom's Asylum System
1st Edition
By John R. Campbell
March 21, 2019
The central concern of this book is to find answers to fundamental questions about the British asylum system and how it operates. Based on ethnographic research over a two-year period, the work follows and analyses numerous asylum appeals through the British courts. It draws on myriad interviews ...
Towards a Refugee Oriented Right of Asylum
1st Edition
By Laura Westra, Satvinder Juss
February 07, 2017
This volume explores the factors that give rise to the number of people seeking asylum and examines the barriers they currently and will continue to face. Divided into three parts, the authors first explore the causality that generates displacement, examining climate change, illegal conflicts and ...
Refugee Law and Practice in Japan
1st Edition
By Osamu Arakaki
November 29, 2016
This volume examines the development of refugee law and policy in Japan. The book discusses systemic weaknesses and compares the evolution of law in other states to highlight problems in Japan's refugee determination system. Ultimately, the book calls for Japan to reform failing systems and take ...