States, the Law and Access to Refugee Protection

Maria O’Sullivan is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law and a Deputy Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University.Dallal Stevens is Associate Professor (Reader) of Law at the University of Warwick.

• Part I: Conceptual Background1. Access to Refugee Protection: Key Concepts and Contemporary Challenges Maria O’Sullivan and Dallal Stevens2. Asylum in the Context of Immigration Control: Exclusion by Default or Design? Nadine El-EnanyPart II: Access to Territory 3. Where Do State Responsibilities Begin and End? Border Exclusions and State Responsibility Júlia Iván4. Access to International Protection: Border Issues in TurkeyCavidan Soykan5. Interdiction and Screening of Asylum Seekers at Sea: Implications for Asylum Justice Maria O’Sullivan6. Detained at the Border: Obstacles to Entry for Central American Refugees in the United States Maggie Morgan and Deborah AnkerPart III: Access to Justice and a Refugee Status Determination Procedure7. Accessing Fair and Efficient Asylum Procedures in the EU: Legal Safeguards and Loopholes in the Common European Asylum System Kris Pollet8. The State of the Asylum System in South Africa Corey Johnson and Sergio Carciotto9. Access to Asylum and Reception Conditions in Western Balkans: Focus on Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia Selma Porobic and Drago Župaric-Iljic10. Access to Justice for Syrian Refugees in Lebanon Dallal Stevens11. Accelerated Asylum Procedures in the United Kingdom and Australia: ‘Fast Track’ to Refoulement? Linda Kirk12. Access to Asylum for Victims of Trafficking under a Human Rights-based Approach Nula Frei and Constantin Hruschka13. States, the Law and Access to Refugee Protection: Concluding Reflections Dallal Stevens and Maria O’Sullivan

The lasting impression left by the collection is that it is a very powerful documentation of the diverse types of obstacles facing asylum seekers trying to access asylum procedures around the world.