New Regionalism and Asylum Seekers

Susan Kneebone is an Associate Professor in the Law Faculty of Monash University where she teaches Citizenship and Migration Law and International Refugee Law and Practice. In May 2003 she was a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre in Oxford.

• List of TablesList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Regionalism as a Response to a Global ChallengeSusan Kneebone and Felicity Rawlings-SanaeiOld regionalism: development of the international refugee protection systemThe 1969 Organisation of African Unity ConventionThe Cartagena DeclarationThe Comprehensive Plan of ActionNew Regionalism: UNHCR’s Convention Plus and Agenda for ProtectionChapter 1. The Migration–Asylum Nexus and Regional ApproachesStephen CastlesIntroductionWhat is the migration–asylum nexus?Notes for a political economy of forced migrationRegional responsesConclusionChapter 2. Strategies, Stories and Smuggling: Inter-regional Asylum Flows and Their Implications for Regional ResponsesKhalid KoserIntroductionMethodologyThe impact of asylum and immigration policies and proceduresThe role of social networksThe growing significance of smugglingImplications of regional responsesChapter 3. Forced Migration, Engineered Regionalism and Justice between StatesMatthew J. GibneyIntroductionHistoryThe need for justice amongst statesThe commodification objectionConclusionChapter 4. The Europeanization of Refugee PolicyJoanne van SelmIntroductionWhat do we mean by Europe?How does Europe relate to the Refugees Convention refugee ‘policy regime’?What distinctions are there in national refugee policies across Europe?The European level: a Europeanized refugee policy?The future: a Europeanized refugee policy?ConclusionChapter 5. Europeanization of Citizenship and Asylum Policy: a Case Study of the U.K.Nazila GhaneaIntroductionEU policies on free movement, citizenship and nationality: the 1992 Maastricht Treaty and 1997 Amsterdam TreatyFree movement, citizenship, nationality and the development of EU asylum policyEU laws and policies and the impact of such on the situation of asylum in the U.K.Chapter 6. North American Responses: a Comparative Study of U.S. and Canadian Refugee PolicyFrançois Crepéau and Stephen H. LegomskyIntroductionThe Canadian refugee processThe United States refugee processCanada–U.S. cooperation on immigration and border control issuesConclusionChapter 7. Australia, Indonesia and the Pacific PlanSusan Kneebone and Sharon PickeringIntroductionAustralia’s refugee policy: from the CPA to TampaIndonesia and the Pacific StrategyProtection under the Pacific StrategyConclusionChapter 8. New Regionalisms, New Migrations and New Regulations in Africa: Asylum Seekers, Diasporas and Development at the Start of a New CenturyTimothy M. ShawIntroductionMigrations and globalizations in AfricaMigrations and the ‘new’ Africas‘New’ regionalisms and contemporary migrationTowards ‘new’ African regime(s) for migration at the start of the twenty-first century?New security dilemmasImplications for analysis and policyChapter 9. Regionalism, Human Rights and Forced MigrationColin HarveyIntroductionInternational refugee law and human rights protectionGlobal, regional and national interactionsConclusionChapter 10. Conclusion: Challenges AheadSusan KneeboneIndex