"Immigration and Refugee Law will assist legal practitioners and immigration consultants in understanding and implementing the new Immigration Act 2009 and the scope of immigration and refugee law in New Zealand today. Examines the similarities and differences of the two pieces of legislation and the ongoing influence the 1987 Act will have on the 2009 Act."--Publisher information.
In an age of ever-increasing globalisation and travel, migration and relocation, immigration law affects a growing number of people. The Immigration Act 1987, which has been in force for over 22 years, will be repealed and replaced by the Immigration Act 2009 by Order in Council in 2010. Immigration and Refugee Law will assist legal practitioners and immigration consultants in understanding and implementing the changes that the new Act will bring about and the scope of immigration and refugee law in New Zealand today. The only textbook in New Zealand that discusses both the 2009 and 1987 Acts. Examines the similarities and differences of the two pieces of legislation and the ongoing influence the 1987 Act will have on the 2009 Act. Considers the challenges which will be faced by the bodies implementing the new legislation and attempts to provide some assistance in this process. Written by Doug Tennent, honourary lecturer in law at the University of Waikato and respected author on issues relating to immigration and refugee law
Papers presented at a conference held by the Legal Research Foundation in association with the Institute of Criminology, Victoria University of Wellington, at Auckland, New Zealand on 12 and 13 May 1995.
This Handbook draws together leading and emerging scholars to provide a comprehensive critical analysis of international refugee law. This book provides an account as well as a critique of the status quo, setting the agenda for future research in the field.
Children are the victims of some of the most devastating examples of state-sanctioned and private human rights abuse. In increasing numbers, they are attempting to find international protection, and are forced to navigate complex administrative and legal processes that fail to take into account their distinct needs and vulnerabilities. The key challenges they face in establishing entitlement to refugee protection are their invisibility and the risk of incorrect assessment. Drawing on an extensive and original analysis of jurisprudence of leading common law jurisdictions, this book undertakes an assessment of the extent to which these challenges may be overcome by greater engagement between international refugee law and international law on the rights of the child. The result is the first comprehensive study on the manner in which these two mutually reinforcing legal regimes can interact to strengthen the protection of refugee children.
Does human rights law help us to define who qualifies as a refugee? If so, then how? These deceptively simple questions sit at the heart of an intense contemporary debate over whether, or how, interpretation of the refugee definition in the Refugee Convention should take account of human rights law. In Human Rights and the Refugee Definition, Burson and Cantor bring a fine-grained comparative perspective to this debate. For the first time, they collect together in one edited volume over a dozen new studies by leading scholars and practitioners that explore in detail how these legal dynamics play out in a range of national and international jurisdictions and in relation to particular thematic challenges in refugee law.
