James C. Simeon is the head of McLaughlin College and an associate professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA), York University, Toronto, Canada. He is a member-at-large and past president of the Executive of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies. He also serves as the coordinator of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges’ (IARMJ) Inter-Conference Working Party Process. Before joining the faculty at York University he served as the IARMJ’s first executive director, and prior to that he was a member and coordinating member of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB).

• Foreword - Sir Howard Morrison, QC Introduction1. Irreparable harm: serious international crimes, breaches in fundamental human rights and human dignity, and forced migrationPart 1: Examining the Fundamental Interrelationships with Serious International Crimes, Human Rights and Forced Migration 2. International crimes, international outlaws and the interface between ICL and IRL3. Legal implications of the “presumption of innocence” and the exclusion clauses in international protection cases: the European law perspective 4. The “generalized risk” exception in Canadian refugee determination5. Violations of fundamental human rights, serious international crimes, and the prosecution of those who have been excluded from refugee protection Part 2: Comparative and National Studies of Serious International Crimes, Human Rights, and Forced Migration 6. Inadmissibility on security-related grounds under Section 34(1)(f ) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act: a reconsideration7. Falling between the cracks of cornerstones: challenging the detention of asylum seekers on identity grounds8. International crimes, refugee ‘prisoner’ swaps and duplicity in Australia’s refugee admissions 9. The application of Article 1F UNCSR in international protection decision making in Ireland in the context of EU and international law10. The European refugee crisis and its human rights impact on forced migrants in GreecePart 3: Assessing and Challenging the International Legal Order and Moving Forward 11. Ethnic cleansing and exclusion12. Staged interpretation of Article 1F(b) – ‘serious non-political crime outside the country of refuge prior to [his or her] admission to that country as a refugee’ – a periaktos, scene setting problem?13. Forced displacement as a crime against humanity: can the Rohingya criminal case at the ICC bring any justice to the Syrian refugees? 14. When border control operations become crimes against humanityConclusions 15. Explicating the interrelationships between and among serious international crimes, human rights and human dignity, and forced migration