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The Law (and Politics) of Forced Displacement: Toward a History of the Present

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 December 2019

Itamar Mann
Itamar Mann*
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University of Haifa, Faculty of Law
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It is a tremendous honor being here today and participating in this esteemed panel on the “Law (and Politics) of Displacement,” which Jill Goldenziel has organized. I would like to share some research Umut Özsu and I are working on. This is a work in progress, but I still think its outlines are worth discussion, by way of historical background. I hope the project also demonstrates quite well why several of us at the International Migration Law Interest Group at the American Society of International Law have been thinking that migration should become more central to the discipline of international law; as central, say, as international humanitarian law.

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Law (and Politics) of Displacement: Migratory & Refugee Crises under International Law
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 113 , 2019 , pp. 111 - 115
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Copyright © 2019 by The American Society of International Law

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References

1 Jaya Ramji Nogales & Peter J. Spiro, Introduction to the Symposium on Framing Global Migration Law, 111 AJIL Unbound 1 (2017).

2 On the notion of migration infrastructures, see Thomas Spijkerboer, The Global Mobility Infrastructure: Reconceptualizing the Externatlisation of Migration Control, 20 Eur. J. Mig. & L. 452 (2018).

3 See Matthew Gibney, A Thousand Little Guantánamos: Western States and Measures to Prevent the Arrival of Refugees, in Displacement, Asylum, Migration: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2004, at 139 (Kate E. Tunstall ed., 2006).

4 Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen & James C. Hathaway, Non-refoulement in a World of Cooperative Deterrence, 53 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. 235 (2015).

5 See Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States, Art. 1(a), Dec. 26, 1933, 165 LNTS 19.

6 Umut Özsu, Formalizing Displacement: International Law and Population Transfers (2014).

7 Catriona Drew, Remembering 1948: Who's Afraid of International Legal History in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?, in Who's Afraid of International Law (Raimond Gaita & Gerry Simpson eds., 2017).

8 See Itamar Mann, Humanity at Sea: Maritime Migration and the Foundations of International Law (2016).

9 See discussion in Jill Goldenziel, The Curse of the Nation-State: Refugees, Migration, and Security in International Law, 48 Ariz. St. L.J. 579 (2016).

10 Astri Suhrke, Indochinese Refugees: The Law and Politcs of First Asylum, 467 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 102, 106 (1983).

11 Agreement Between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States of America for Cooperation in the Examination of Refugee Status Claims from Nationals of Third Countries (Dec. 29, 2004).

12 For the text of the 2013 Asylum Procedures Directive, see http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32013L0032&from=en. For explanation of the context and related developments, see further, European Commission, Migration and Home Affairs, Asylum, at https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/asylum/common-procedures_en.

13 See European Council Press Release, EU-Turkey Statement (Mar. 18, 2016), at http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2016/03/18-eu-turkey-statement.

14 Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the European Council and the Council, Next Operational Steps in EU-Turkey Cooperation in the Field of Migration, COM (2016) 166 final, available at http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/european-agenda-migration/proposal-implementation-package/docs/20160316/next_operational_steps_in_eu-turkey_cooperation_in_the_field_of_migration_en.pdf.

15 See Planned Relocations, Disasters and Climate Change: Consolidating Good Practices and Preparing for the Future—Background Document, San Remo Consultation, Mar. 12–14 2014, at https://www.nanseninitiative.org/portfolio-item/background-paper-to-the-san-remo-consultation.

16 For the recommendations, see Agenda for the Protection of Cross-Border Displaced Persons in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change (2005), 2 vols., available at http://disasterdisplacement.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/EN_Protection_Agenda_Volume_I_-low_res.pdf; http://disasterdisplacement.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/EN_Protection_Agenda_Volume_II_-low_res.pdf.

17 For basic information on both initiatives, see Nansen Initiative on Disaster-Induced Cross-Border Displacement, at https://www.nanseninitiative.org/secretariat; and Platform on Disaster Displacement, at http://disasterdisplacement.org/#consultations. For more on the Nansen Initiative's emergence and principal objectives, see Walter Kälin, From the Nansen Principles to the Nansen Initiative, 41 Forced Migration Rev. 48 (2012), available at http://www.fmreview.org/preventing/kalin.html.

18 See Geoff Mann & Joel Wainwright, Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of our Planetary Future (2018).