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When Migrants Make Perilous Sea Crossings: The Causal Role of International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2017

Ralph Wilde*
Affiliation:
University College London, University of London, http://www.laws.ucl.ac.uk/people/ralph-wilde

Abstract

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Type
Migrants at Sea: What Role for International Law?
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2016

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References

1 I should declare I was involved, along with Başak Çali, Cathryn Costello, and Guy Goodwin Gill, in drafting and organizing the signatures for a letter, signed by over nine hundred international lawyers, coming out of the 2015 European Society of International Law conference in Oslo, conveying a message of this type. See Open Letter to the Peoples of Europe, the European Union, EU Member States and Their Representatives on the Justice and Home Affairs Council (Sept. 22, 2015), available at http://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/open-letter1.pdf.

2 Schengen: Controversial EU Free Movement Deal Explained, BBC News (Apr. 24, 2016), at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13194723.

3 According to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees: “Developing regions hosted 86 percent of the world's refugees under UNHCR's mandate.” See UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2015 (2016), at http://www.unhcr.org/576408cd7.pdf.

4 See, e.g., U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Statement Calling for Solutions to End the Warehousing of Refugees (June 2005), available at http://www.anafe.org/IMG/pdf/appel_europeen_lance_par_u.s.ve.pdf (I should declare I am a signatory to this statement).