Description
Book SynopsisThe 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 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 question 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 and gaps in refugee protection. It is also the structural lack of political voice, the book argues, which shapes the refugee's situation. On the other hand, the book opposes a view of law as mere expression of power and points out the dynamics within the law which reflec
Table of Contents
I. The refugee;
Chapter 1 Who is a refugee?;
Chapter 2 Who decides who is a refugee?;
II. Democracy’s edges;
Chapter 3 Citizenship and the claiming of rights;
Chapter 4 Democracy between the need for institutions and demands of inclusion;
III. The legal conditions of refugees’ political voice;
Chapter 5 Institutions of refugees’ political participation;
Chapter 6 The role of associative rights for refugees’ political voice;
Chapter 7 Humanitarian government and the political membership of refugees;
Chapter 8 Representation of refugees in international forums;
