Refugee Law after 9/11
Sanctuary and Security in Canada and the United States
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2020
- Category
- Emigration & Immigration, Refugees
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774861465
- Publish Date
- Feb 2020
- List Price
- $89.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774861472
- Publish Date
- Sep 2020
- List Price
- $34.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774861496
- Publish Date
- Feb 2020
- List Price
- $34.99
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Common wisdom suggests that the 9/11 terrorist attacks changed everything about the character of refugee law in the United States and in neighbouring Canada. But did they? If so, how do the responses of the two countries compare in terms of their negative impacts on refugee rights? Refugee Law after 9/11 undertakes a systematic examination of available legal, policy, and empirical evidence to reveal a great irony: refugee rights were already so whittled down in both countries before 9/11 that there was relatively little room for negative change after the attacks. It also shows that the Canadian refugee law regime reacted to 9/11 in much the same way as its US counterpart, and these similar reactions raise significant questions about security relativism and the cogency of Canadian and US national self-image.
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Contributor Notes
Obiora Chinedu Okafor is York Research Chair in International and Transnational Legal Studies (Tier 1) and a professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto. He is the United Nations Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity and a former chair of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee. He is also the author of The African Human Rights System, Activist Forces and International Institutions; Legitimizing Human Rights NGOs: Lessons from Nigeria; Re-defining Legitimate Statehood: International Law and State Fragmentation in Africa; and dozens of other scholarly works.