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Matthew Scott
Adjungerad universitetslektor
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Refugee Status Determination in the Context of 'Natural' Disasters and Climate Change : A Human Rights-Based Approach
Författare
Summary, in Swedish
Arguing that RSD cannot safely be performed without a clear understanding of the relationship between natural hazards and human agency, the thesis draws insights from disaster anthropology and political ecology that see discrimination as a contributory cause of people’s differential exposure and vulnerability to disaster-related harm. This theoretical framework, combined with insights derived from the review of existing doctrinal and judicial approaches, prompts a critical revision of the dominant human rights-based approach to being persecuted, which is argued to be event-based and preoccupied with the nature of the harm, rather than the discriminatory context in which exposure and vulnerability arise. A novel human rights-based interpretation of the refugee definition is adopted and applied in answer to the research question.
Avdelning/ar
- Miljörätt
- Raoul Wallenberg institutet för mänskliga rättigheter och humanitär rätt
- Juridiska institutionen
Publiceringsår
2018-04-24
Språk
Engelska
Dokumenttyp
Doktorsavhandling
Förlag
Lund University (Media-Tryck)
Ämne
- Law
Nyckelord
- Human Rights
- Public International Law
- Climate Change
- Interpretation
- Persecution
- Well-Founded Fear
- Discrimination
- Refugee
- Disaster
- Folkrätt
- Mänskliga rättigheter
- Flyktingrätt
Aktiv
Published
Projekt
- Lund Human Rights Research Hub
Forskningsgrupp
- Environmental Law
Handledare
- Gregor Noll
- Rebecca Stern
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 978-91-7753-642-0
- ISBN: 978-91-7753-641-3
Försvarsdatum
22 maj 2018
Försvarstid
10:15
Försvarsplats
Pufendorfsalen, Juridiska institutionen, Lilla Gråbrödersgatan 3C, Lund
Opponent
- Michelle Foster (Professor)