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Looking to Human Rights and Humanitarian Law to Determine Refugee Status

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Kate Jastram
Kate Jastram*
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University of California at Berkeley School of Law
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International Norm-Making on Forced Displacement: Challenges and Complexity
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 106 , 2012 , pp. 436 - 439
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2012

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References

1 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, arts. 1A(2) & lF(a), respectively.

2 UNHCR, Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status, para. 51 (1992) (emphasis added).

3 European Union Qualification Directive (2004), art. (9)(l)(a) (emphasis added).

4 Jastram, Kate, Economic Harm as a Basis for Refugee Status and the Application of Human Rights Law to the Interpretation of Economic Persecution, in Critical Issues in International Refugee Law: Strategies Toward Interpretative Harmony 143 (Simeon, James C. ed., 2010)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Andrew I. Schoenholtz & Philip G. Schrag, Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication and Proposals for Reform (2009).

6 At http://www.epc.eu/events_rep_details.php?cat_id=6&pub_id=1430 (last visited Apr. 25, 2012).

7 The study counts opinions, allowing for multiple opinions in one case, rather than cases. Cases covered the period from 1984 to the present.

8 UNHCR, Guidelines on International Protection: Application of the Exclusion Clauses: Article if of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (2003).