The Shifting Sands of Refugee Protection: Normativity, Crisis, and Contemporary UK Asylum
A special issue of Laws (ISSN 2075-471X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 410
Special Issue Editors
Interests: human rights law; citizenship and electoral rights; international refugee law; international humanitarian law
Interests: refugee law; queer theory; international human rights law and theory; socio-legal methods; critical approaches to law
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the UK, building on previous legacies of offshoring, such as those seen in Australia and now becoming one of the most active states in terms of steps to limit the ability of people to seek sanctuary, this Special Issue brings together a range of experts on refugee protection whose knowledge and experience pertains, inter alia, to UK asylum law and practice. It will explore policy and legislative changes introduced by the British government in the years 2022–2024, with a view to understanding how different elements of the Refugee Status Determination process and ensuing refugee rights have been impacted. The works across this Special Issue draw on scholars with specialised expertise, such as understanding of LGBTQIA+, women’s and, children’s asylum claims, expanding criminalisation, externalisation as well as legal aid and situating the UK in a comparative and global perspective. This is accompanied by broader analysis of the systemic shifts we have witnessed across the UK asylum system.
The volume offers the first in-depth and comprehensive appraisal of the state of the UK asylum system following the proliferation of restrictive legislation enacted by the Conservative government across the years 2022 to 2024, including the Nationality and Borders Act 2022, the Illegal Migration Act 2023 and the Safety of Rwanda Act 2024 as well as the broader practical and discursive shifts around issues of migration and refugee status.
Dr. Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler
Dr. Alex Powell
Dr. Raawiyah Rifath
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- UK asylum
- vulnerability
- refugees
- RSD
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