Refugee Dignity in Protracted Exile

This book investigates how effective human rights and the inherent dignity of refugees can be secured in situations of protracted exile and encampment.

Autorentext

Anna Lise Purkey is Summer Course Director and Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, Toronto

Inhalt

Introduction 1. The Exclusion of Long-term Refugees from the Law: Creating Situations of Protracted Rights-"less"-ness 2. The State-Refugee Fiduciary Relationship: The Legal Obligation to Secure Human Rights-based Capabilities 3. A Challenge to Power: Legal Empowerment as an Enabling Central Capability 4. The Faces of Legal Empowerment in Protracted Refugee Situations 5. Critical Engagement: Adopting a Participatory Approach to Legal Empowerment Conclusion