Refuge Lost

Daniel Ghezelbash is a senior lecturer at Macquarie Law School, Sydney, Australia, where he teaches and researches in the areas of refugee and immigration law, human rights and administrative law. He is a practicing refugee lawyer and the director and founder of the Macquarie University Social Justice Law Clinic.

'People are on the move, and this book shows how desperate policy-makers ply the international market for laws and policies which might be borrowed and adapted to their own illusory goals of deterrence and control. In jurisdictions insufficiently attuned to the rule of law and democratic accountability, this leads too often, not to meaningful solutions for those in search of refuge, but to almost total disregard of their fundamental humanity, and to lasting damage to the lives, health and well-being of men, women and children at risk. With international institutions and principles under threat and legal black holes on the rise, Dr Ghezelbash's analysis provides a critical foundation for restoring credibility and protection.' Guy S. Goodwin-Gill, University of New South Wales, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law and All Souls College, Oxford

• 1. Introduction; 2. Managing asylum seeker flows in the 21st-Century; 3. Long-term mandatory immigration detention; 4. Maritime interdiction; 5. Extraterritorial processing; 6. International law; 7. Lessons for other jurisdictions; Appendix.