Human Security and Non-Citizens

Alice Edwards is Lecturer in International Refugee and Human Rights Law at the Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford University. She has previously worked as a legal adviser to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and Amnesty International. Carla Ferstman is the Director of REDRESS, an international non-governmental organisation which provides legal support to survivors of torture and related crimes. She has worked as a criminal defence lawyer in Canada and written and lectured extensively on international criminal law and human rights.

• Part I. Human Security, Human Rights, and Human Dignity: 1. Humanising non-citizens: the convergence of human rights and human security Alice Edwards and Carla Ferstman; Part II. Physical and Legal Security, Armed Conflict and Refuge: 2. The value of the human security framework in addressing statelessness Mark Manly and Laura Van Waas; 3. Protection and empowerment: strategies to strengthen refugees' human security Frances Nicholson; 4. From here to where? Refugees living in protracted situations in Africa Edwin Odhiambo Abuya; 5. Once we were warriors: critical reflections on refugee and IDP militarisation and human security Robert Muggah; 6. Human security and protection from refoulement in the maritime context Barbara Miltner; Part III. Migration, Development and Environment: 7. Empowering migrants: human security, human rights, and policy Pia Oberoi; 8. Labour migration management and the rights of migrant workers Ryszard Cholewinski; 9. Socio-economic rights, human security, and survival migrants: whose rights? Whose security? Eve Lester; 10. An insecure climate for human security? Climate-induced displacement and international law Jane McAdam and Ben Saul; 11. Human security and trafficking of human beings: the myth and the reality Ryszard Piotrowicz; Part IV. National Security and the 'War on Terror': 12. A distinction with a legal difference: the consequences of non-citizenship in the 'War on Terror' Craig Forcese; 13. Immigration law enforcement after 9/11 and human rights Daniel Moeckli; 14. Protection of non-citizens against removal under international human rights law Vesselina Vandova; 15. The human security framework and counter terrorism: examining the rhetoric relating to 'extraordinary renditions' Carla Ferstman; 16. Legal routes to restoring individual rights at Guantanamo Bay: the effectiveness of Habeas Corpus applications and efforts to obtain diplomatic protection Lorna McGregor.

'A very fine set of essays! Many of those writing span both academic and practitioner worlds, making this a particularly valuable and accessible volume.' Professor Gil Loescher, University of Oxford