Refugee Law After 9/11: Sanctuary and Security in Canada and the United States
Files
Available in the Osgoode Hall Law School Library
Description
Common wisdom suggests that the 9/11 terrorist attacks changed everything about the character of refugee law in the United States, and even in neighbouring Canada. But did they? And if so, how do the responses of the two countries, including heightened security and more pronounced security anxieties, compare in terms of refugee rights?
Refugee Law after 9/11 undertakes a detailed, systematic examination of available legal, policy, and empirical evidence to reveal a great irony: refugee rights were already so whittled down in both countries before 9/11 that there was relatively little room for negative change after the attacks. It also shows that the Canadian refugee law regime reacted to 9/11 in much the same way as its US counterpart, raising significant questions about the power of security relativism and the cogency of the Canadian and US national self-image.
Obiora Okafor explores the logic behind changes in refugee law in Canada and the United States following 9/11 and up to the present, uncovering the reasons for the orientation of their respective refugee rights regimes in specific ways.
Scholars, students, policy makers, bureaucrats, migration/refugee workers, human rights workers, and all those concerned with refugee law, human rights, and national security will find this book necessary reading.
ISBN
9780774861489
Publication Date
2-2020
Publisher
UBC Press
City
Vancouver
Keywords
Human Rights Law, Immigration & Emigration, International Relations, Law, Law & Politics, Political Science, Security Studies, Transnationalism & Migration
Disciplines
Human Rights Law | Immigration Law | International Law | Law
Repository Citation
Okafor, Obiora C., "Refugee Law After 9/11: Sanctuary and Security in Canada and the United States" (2020). Books. 441.
https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty_books/441