Critical Introduction to International Refugee Law

Cathryn Costello is a Visiting Professor at the Hertie School, Berlin. She is Full Professor of Global Refugee and Migration Law at the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin.

• 1. The Refugee in History, Politics and International Law2. The Wrong of Displacement3. Seeking Refuge in a World of Shifting Borders4. The Precarious Liminality of the Asylum-Seeker5. Recognition Processes: Coercion and Complexity6. Criteria for Recognition: Who Is a Refugee? Global and Regional Approaches7. Refugees Rights & Realities8. The Ends of Refugeehood: Solutions Reconsidered9. The Future of International Refugee Law