asylum

This study establishes a profile of Libyans currently in the UK and examines existing case law and Home Office guidelines to explain the conditions under which Libyans have been granted or refused asylum and subsequently removed from the UK to Libya. The main finding of this study is that the imperative of security cooperation has increased the likelihood that more Libyan migrants will be returned from the UK and this poses a worrying scenario, especially given Libya’s record of refoulement and other human rights abuses.

This article argues that the westernised concept of liberalism, which assumes the ability of States to control migration, is inappropriate in an African context at a number of fundamental levels. In particular, in many African States the boundaries are ill defined, governments lack appropriate resources for border control, and the movement of asylum seekers is mostly that of mass influx.

This RSC working paper explores the limits of 'subsidiary' or 'complementary' protection, with particular emphasis on how the concept is applied within the European Communities [EC] legal order. Seeking light in obscure places, it argues that developments in EC law, as well as the evolving jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, can be construed positively as dispelling confusion between differently motivated claims to international protection.

This document consists of the opening and closing addresses to the Refugee Studies Programme's Summer School in 1998. The focus is on international protection and the role of the UNHCR.