Refugee Protection and the Role of Law

Susan Kneebone is a Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, Monash University, Australia.Dallal Stevens is Associate Professor of Law in the School of Law, University of Warwick, UK.Loretta Baldassar is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the School of Social and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia.

• Part 1: Refugee Law and Protection: Fit for Purpose 60 Years On? 1. Conflicting Identities, Protection and the Role of Law, Susan Kneebone, Loretta Baldassar and Dallal Stevens 2. Creating Identities, Diminishing Protection and the Securitisation of Asylum in Europe, Roger Zetter 3. Rights and the Re-identified Refugee: An Analysis of Recent Shifts in Canadian Law, Donald Galloway 4. The Refugee Convention at 60: Still Fit for Its Purpose? Protection Tools for Protection Needs, Erika FellerPart 2: Refugee Identities and Protection: Historical Shifts 5. Shifting Conceptions of Refugee Identity and Protection: European and Middle Eastern Approaches, Dallal Stevens 6. Refugees as Objects of Surrogate Protection: Shifting Identities, Susan Kneebone 7. Identifying Asylum Seekers as Potential Refugees: Transfers and ‘Acquired Rights’ under the Refugee Convention, Maria O'Sullivan Part 3: Law, Power and Refugee Identity: Macro and State Perspectives 8. Conflicting Identities and Securitisation in Refugee Law: Lessons from the EU, Elspeth Guild 9. Survival Migration: Conflicting Refugee Identities in Africa, Alexander Betts 10. Transnational Law and Refugee Identity: The Worldwide Effect of European Norms, Hélène LambertPart 4: Refugee Identities and Protection: Micro, Social and Individual Perspectives 11. Ambivalent Policies, Uncertain Identities: Asylum-Seeking Families, Ulla Bjornberg 12. Better than our fears? Refugees in Italy between Rhetorics of Exclusion and Local Projects of Inclusion, Maurizo Ambrosini 13. Moving beyond Protection Space: Developing a Law of Asylum in South East Asia, Martin JonesPart 5 14. Law, Identity and Protection: Concluding Reflections, Dallal Stevens, Loretta Baldassar and Susan Kneebone

"This book is an outstanding scholarly work on a topic of considerable public importance in Australia and elsewhere."-John Rutherford, Solicitor, LIJ