The Promise and Potential of the Global Compact on Refugees

Türk, Volker

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“…According to this argument, while states remain bound by their legal obligations as articulated in the conventions, covenants, and other binding instruments to which they have acquiesced through ratification or accession, the Compact is an expression of further or additional aspirations on top of these legal obligations. This is the argument advanced by Volker Türk, the UN Refugee Agency's Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, as well as others (Akram, ; Türk, ). Additional support for this argument can be found in the fact that the Compact was endorsed by 181 countries, significantly more than have ratified or acceded to most human rights instruments.…”

Section: Compact Vs Convention or Covenant: National Governance Frammentioning

confidence: 81%

National Governance Frameworks in the Global Compact on Refugees: Dangers and Opportunities

Arnold-Fernández

2019

International Migration

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This article examines the treatment of national governance frameworks in the Global Compact on Refugees. Given that national governance frameworks are the primary determinants of whether a refugee can live safely, move freely, work, and access state and private services such as education, healthcare, banking and justice, their treatment in the Global Compact has important implications for future prospects for local integration, the durable solution least‐often discussed but most likely to become the de facto reality for most of the world's refugees.

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Section: Compact Vs Convention or Covenant: National Governance Frammentioning

confidence: 81%

National Governance Frameworks in the Global Compact on Refugees: Dangers and Opportunities

Arnold-Fernández

2019

International Migration

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“…Ongoing attempts to rectify these problems, such as through the recent Global Compact processes on refugees and safe, orderly and regular migration, continue to receive varied academic responses, ranging from cautiously optimistic assessments (Türk and Garlick, 2016; Türk, 2018; Goodwin-Gil, 2018) to the downright disparaging (Hathaway, 2019; Chimni, 2019). Hathaway (2019), for example, has criticised the emergence of a global trade in ‘never-ending talkfests’ around refugees.…”

Section: Situating Alternatives To Formal Asylummentioning

confidence: 99%

Pluralising geographies of refuge

Cole

2020

Progress in Human Geography

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This article explores why certain spaces of refuge continue to be excised from global maps of forced migration. It first reviews why this exclusion happens, before synthesising work on the movements of forced migrants to states that are not signatories to the dominant refugee law frameworks. This exposes the partiality of geographies of refuge that rest on Western legal-normative conceptualisations of hospitality and humanitarianism. It argues that a focus on alternative sites and forms of refuge is nonetheless critical for 1) sketching accurate experiential and geopolitical maps of forced migration and 2) challenging dominant moral geographies of asylum and responsibility-sharing.

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“…Accordingly, the GCR is “grounded” in the international refugee protection regime, at the core of which is the Refugee Convention and 1967 Protocol, and “guided” by relevant international human rights instruments. The compact's underlying rationale is to support burden‐ and responsibility sharing (§5) (Türk, ). In this perspective, and as stressed by UNHCR, the GCR is more an instrument of cooperation than protection (Alfred, ).…”

Section: Gcm and Gcr In A Comparative Perspective: Potential And Pitfmentioning

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Immigration Detention under the Global Compacts in the Light of Refugee and Human Rights Law Standards

Majcher¹

2019

International Migration

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The article explores how immigration detention is addressed in the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) and Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) and investigates the potential implications of the compacts on the existing legal framework regulating the use of immigration detention. While Objective 13 of the GCM largely reflects detention‐related standards under international human rights law, the GCR makes only scarce references to detention in §60. Overall, the compacts risk inhibiting gradual endorsement of the norm of non‐detention of children. On the other hand, they rightly restate the priority for alternatives to detention for adults. States should implement the provisions of the compacts in line with their obligations under international human rights and refugee law. The compacts cannot be used as a pretext to lower domestic detention‐related standards or to diminish the validity of the existing framework governing immigration detention.

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The Promise and Potential of the Global Compact on Refugees

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National Governance Frameworks in the Global Compact on Refugees: Dangers and Opportunities

National Governance Frameworks in the Global Compact on Refugees: Dangers and Opportunities

Pluralising geographies of refuge

Immigration Detention under the Global Compacts in the Light of Refugee and Human Rights Law Standards

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