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The word ‘refugee’ is both evocative and contested; it means different things to different people. For lawyers, the main legal reference point is the UN Refugee Convention of 1951. This concise and engaging book follows the structure of the Convention to explore international refugee law. Including an introduction to the historical and legal context, Colin Yeo draws on his experience as an immigration barrister to explain the present-day legal framework for global refugee protection. Chapters consider: • well-founded fear; • persecution; • the loss of refugee status and exclusion; • the rights of refugees; • and state responses to refugee claims. The book includes studies of key legal cases, reviews the successes and failures of the Convention and looks ahead to the future, including the impact of climate change and the Global Compact on Refugees. Communicating important legal concepts in an approachable way, this is an essential guide for students, lawyers and non-special...

For a global leading law firm dedicated to corporate immigration services worldwide, we are currently recruiting a Dutch Qualified Immigration Lawyer to be based at their new office in Amsterdam. Location: Amsterdam, North Holland Sector: Law Firms Job type: Permanent Salary: Negotiable Contact: Tobias Herweijer Contact email: tobiasherweijer@taylorroot.com Published: 13 days ago Expiry date: 2020-11-22 Startdate: ASAP About the role: As a Senior Immigration Lawyer you will work together with the Director to set up the new Amsterdam office, expand government strategies, support and extend the advisory capabilities. Your tasks and responsibilit...

This book provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of the increased role of criminal law in managing migration, from a European, domestic and comparative law perspective. The contributors critically engage with the current trends leading to the criminalisation of irregular migrants, asylum seekers and those who engage in 'humanitarian smuggling' and the national and common policies calling for a broader use of criminal law measures. The chapters explore the measures used to protect borders and their impact in terms of effectiveness and their ability to strike a fair balance between security and the protection of human rights. The contributors to the book cover a range of disciplines within law, human rights and criminology resulting in a broad understanding of the issues at play.             

Author Richard Gardiner is Visiting Professor, Faculty of Laws, University College London. His main areas of interest are public international law, air law, intellectual property. Daniel Peat’s excellent study Comparative Reasoning in International Courts and Tribunals covers important issues in the interpretation of treaties. Its examination of how certain international courts and tribunals have used domestic law and principles or concepts derived from domestic law in reasoning leading to interpretation of treaties provides a useful stimulus to consideration of such materials in treaty interpretation. While the book is about interpretation on the international plane, it will also furnish guidance for courts within national systems. Such courts are increasingly encountering legal issues arising from treaties, as treaties come to provide new rules to be given effect within the law of states parties to them, harmonize laws, and provide rules on jurisdict...

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the effectiveness of Mobility Partnerships and their consequences for third countries. Mobility partnerships between the EU and third countries are usually viewed as reflecting asymmetric power relations where development aid, trade relations and visa policies are made conditional upon the cooperation by third countries with an EU agenda of migration control. This book argues that three main factors condition the relevance of Mobility Partnerships: the state of relations between EU Member States and a third country, and in particular, the role of postcolonial ties; the power of negotiation of a third country, which is linked to its geopolitical importance for the EU; and its administrative capacity, which is understood as the capacity of a state to define and implement policies and to legislate and enforce the law. The work combines a comparative legal analysis of the development of the legal and policy frameworks in ...

This six-month teaching and research fellowship has been specifically created for the purposes of covering the (limited) graduate-level teaching obligations of ISS faculty members who will be on research leave in the first half of 2021. The Fellow will in particular deliver and co-ordinate teaching in the following two ISS MA courses: Human Rights, Law & Society and Mobilising Rights & Social Justice, in agreement with the relevant course leaders. The curriculum has been developed, but there is much scope for the teaching fellow’s own unique input. In addition, this fellowship provides for an opportunity to conduct research in an invigorating multidisciplinary and multicultural environment. Formally, the Fellow will be affiliated with the Institute’s MA-Major teaching programme on Human Rights, Gender and Conflict Studies: Social Justice Perspectives, as well as the ISS research group Global Development, Law and Social Justice. Candidates need to be experie...

A few weeks ago mr Kleijweg and I hosted a webinar for people who were here with a Searchyear permit. During the meeting it became clear that those former students were not always well informed about the benefits for them. A former student who has a Zoekjaar verblijfsvergunning (Seachyear permit) does not need those high salary amounts a normal highly qualifies migrant does AND the employer does not need a workpermit for the employee. So mr Kleijweg made a handout for those foreign students.   The basis of the migrationlaw in The Netherlands is the national interest. Only if there is a national interest, a residencepermit will be granted. For that reason there is the “High skilled migrants permit”.   When you are granted the “zoekjaar” there is a special arrangement in place. During this “zoekjaar” you are allowed to do any job without salary threshold. See https://ind.nl/en/work/Pages/Looking-for-a-job-after-study-promotion-or-research.aspx .   I...

This is the result of a cooperation of an Iranian woman who wanted a Schengenvisa and me a Dutch lawyer. Pick and choose what you can use. I would appreciate being named as the author. ANOTHER STATE OBJECTING No legal remedies? - preliminary questions Visa aside, given my spotless personal history as described above, I am sure you can understand that I cannot accept the accusations levelled against me, implied by the reasons given for your refusal. I intend to get legal advice and if necessary take legal action in order to clear my name, which from my point of view your office has unjustifiably besmirched although I understand it is not so much country X (not Holland) what sees a problem in giving me a visa but some unnamed other EU country. As I have no idea what country that might be I am unable to defend myself. That means I have no sufficient legal remedy as is an obligation under the ECHR. I would like to put before you two cases in which Dutch courts asked...