The Concealment Controversy

The Concealment Controversy

Author: Janna Wessels

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-07-29

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1108837093

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An examination of the concealment controversy in international refugee law.


The Concealment Controversy

The Concealment Controversy

Author: Janna Wessels

Publisher:

Published: 2021-05

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781108938402

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"The book explores the concealment controversy in refugee law. The idea that a claim for international protection can be rejected on the basis that the claimant behave 'discreetly' ('discretion' reasoning) in their country of origin has remained resilient in asylum claims based on sexual orientation, but also other grounds of claim. This is significant because requiring an asylum-seeker to forgo the reason for which they are persecuted questions the very rationale of refugee protection. Seeking out both the shapes and the origins of 'discretion' reasoning, the central puzzle that this book addresses is the resilience of this phenomenon. Why is 'discretion' reasoning so difficult to get rid of? How does it inform the construction and definition of the scope of protection? What are the role and responsibilities of the claimant in this negotiation process? These questions combine into the underlying exploration of what is protected under refugee law - and why. The book concludes that 'discretion' reasoning is a site where the scope of refugee protection is negotiated in response to a fundamental tension between two competing principles of refugee law: the notion that claimants cannot be required to hide the characteristic they are persecuted for, and the principle that the purpose of refugee protection is to protect from persecution and not to provide full human rights protection"--


Research Handbook on EU Migration and Asylum Law

Research Handbook on EU Migration and Asylum Law

Author: Evangelia Tsourdi

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2022-12-08

Total Pages: 543

ISBN-13: 1786439638

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This important Research Handbook provides a holistic analysis of the development of the European Union’s migration and asylum policies. It comprehensively examines facets of each policy, including insights from cutting-edge research and an in-depth analysis of their development, whilst also identifying future policy orientation.


Controversial Issues and Social Problems for an Integrated Disciplinary Teaching

Controversial Issues and Social Problems for an Integrated Disciplinary Teaching

Author: Delfín Ortega-Sánchez

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-09-30

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 303108697X

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The scientific literature has been showing that the teaching of controversial topics constitutes one of the most powerful tools for the promotion of active citizenship, the development and acquisition of critical-reflective thinking skills (Misco, 2013), and education for democratic citizenship (Pollak, Segal, Lefstein, and Meshulam, 2017; Misco and Lee, 2014). It has also highlighted, however, the complexities, risks and interference of emotional reactions in learning about sensitive, controversial or controversial historical, geographical or social issues (Jerome and Elwick, 2019; Reiss, 2019; Ho and Seow, 2015; Washington and Humphries, 2011; Swalwell and Schweber, 2016). Recent studies have advanced in the analysis of strategies employed by teacher educators in teaching controversial issues (Nganga, Roberts, Kambutu, and James, 2019; Pace, 2019), and in the curricular decisions of teachers about this teaching (Hung, 2019; King, 2009). These developments confirm the appropriateness of discussing or developing deliberative skills and conversational learning as the most appropriate strategy for the didactic treatment of controversial issues (Claire and Holden, 2007; Hand, 2008; Hess, 2002; Oulton, Day, Dillon and Grace, 2004; Oulton, Dillon and Grace, 2004; Myhill, 2007; Hand and Levinson, 2012; Ezzedeen, 2008). The promotion of discussion on specific social justice issues has also been approached from the use of controversial or documentary images in teacher education contexts, in order to question what is happening or has happened in present and past societies (Hawley, Crowe, and Mooney, 2016; Marcus and Stoddard, 2009). In this context, the aim of this contributed volume is, on one hand, to understand the discourses and decision-making of teachers on controversial issues in interdisciplinary educational contexts and their association with the development of deliberation skills. On the other hand, it seeks to offer studies focused on the analysis of the levels of coherence between their attitudes, positions and teaching practices for the teaching and learning of social problems and controversial issues from an integrated disciplinary perspective.


The Concealment Controversy

The Concealment Controversy

Author: Janna Wessels

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-08-31

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781108940351

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The idea that a claim for international protection can be rejected on the basis that the claimant behave 'discreetly' in their country of origin has remained resilient in asylum claims based on sexual orientation, but also other grounds of claim. This is significant because requiring an asylum-seeker to forgo the reason for which they are persecuted questions the very rationale of refugee protection. This book represents the first principled examination of concealment in refugee law. Janna Wessels connects the different strands of the long-standing debate in both common and civil law jurisdictions and scholarship concerning the question of whether and under which circumstances a claimant must conceal to avoid persecution. In so doing, Wessels uncovers a fundamental tension at the core of the refugee concept. By using sexuality as a lens, this study breaks new ground regarding sexual orientation claims and wider issues surrounding the refugee definition.


Women, Media, and Power in Indonesia

Women, Media, and Power in Indonesia

Author: Jane Ahlstrand

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-12-20

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1000509559

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This book demonstrates the crucial link between gender and structures of power in democratic Indonesia, and the role of the online news media in regulating this relationship of power. Using critical discourse analysis (CDA) as a theoretical framework, and social actor analysis as the methodological approach, this book examines the discursive representation of three prominent female Indonesian political figures in the mainstream Indonesian online news media in a period of social-political transition. It presents newfound linguistic evidence in the form of discourse strategies that reflect the women’s dynamic relationship with power. More broadly, the critical analysis of the news discourse becomes a way of uncovering and evaluating implicit barriers and opportunities affecting women’s political participation in Indonesia and other Asian political contexts, Indonesia’s process of democratisation, and the influential role of the online news media in shaping and reflecting political discourse.


Research Handbook on International Refugee Law

Research Handbook on International Refugee Law

Author: Satvinder Singh Juss

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 0857932810

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In an age of ethnic nationalism and anti-immigrant rhetoric, the study of refugees can help develop a new outlook on social justice, just as the post-war international order ends. The global financial crisis, the rise of populist leaders like Trump, Putin, and Erdogan, not to mention the arrival of anti-EU parties, raises the need to interrogate the refugee, migrant, citizen, stateless, legal, and illegal as concepts. This insightful Research Handbook is a timely contribution to that debate.