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Refugee Law's Fact-Finding Crisis: Truth, Risk, and the Wrong Mistake

Refugee Law's Fact-Finding Crisis: Truth, Risk, and the Wrong Mistake

Author: Hilary Evans Cameron
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108427074

Published In: May 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Paperback Edition ISBN: 9781108448086

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At a time when many around the world are fleeing their homes, seeking refugee protection has become a game of chance. Partly to blame is the law that governs how refugee status decision-makers resolve their doubts.

This long-neglected branch of refugee law has been growing in the dark, with little guidance from the Refugee Convention and little attention from scholars. By looking closely at the Canadian jurisprudence, Hilary Evans Cameron provides the first full account of what this law is trying to accomplish in a refugee hearing.

She demonstrates how a hole in the law's normative foundations is contributing to the dysfunction of one the world's most respected refugee determination systems, and may well be undermining refugee protection across the globe. The author uses her findings to propose a new legal model of refugee status decision-making.

Part I. Introduction:

1. The wrong mistake

1.1. The traditional economic approach

1.2. A psychologically founded theory

1.3. A comparative study

1.4. Conclusion

Part II:

2. Setting the scene

2.1. At the refugee board

2.2. At the Federal Court

2.3. The case study: method and findings

3. The wrong mistake: sending a refugee home