Women in Refugee Law (WiRL) is a global network of asylum seeking and refugee women, academics, practitioners, policymakers and activists. Our submission draws together recent evidence and knowledge from our UK members with lived experience of claimi... Read More about Submission to the special rapporteur on violence against women and girls to inform her visit to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
All Outputs (27)
Consolidating group-based refugee protection (2024)
Digital Artefact
In this blog post, Christel Querton explores two pending cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and how they provide an opportunity for the CJEU to consolidate group-based refugee protection.
Conflict Refugees: European Union Law and Practice (2024)
Digital Artefact
Conflict Refugees: European Union Law and Practice (2023)
Book
Based on a systematic and empirical comparative study of six European Union countries, Christel Querton explores judicial decision-making in the context of persons fleeing armed conflicts in the EU. Addressing and redressing misconceptions about the... Read More about Conflict Refugees: European Union Law and Practice.
Country guidance, country of origin information and the international protection needs of persons fleeing armed conflicts (2023)
Journal Article
The article explores whether the European Union Agency for Asylum's country guidance (CG) reflects the international protection needs of persons fleeing armed conflicts. It uses the Agency's guidance on Iraq as a case study through the lens of object... Read More about Country guidance, country of origin information and the international protection needs of persons fleeing armed conflicts.
Women in refugee law, policy and practice: An introduction to the refugee survey quarterly special issue (2022)
Journal Article
As co-founders and conveners of the Women in Refugee Law (WiRL) network, we are delighted to introduce this Special Issue. The contributors are WiRL members who take forward the network's objectives of recentring the study of refugee women by reviewi... Read More about Women in refugee law, policy and practice: An introduction to the refugee survey quarterly special issue.
Non-State actors of protection and the sliding scale of protection for refugee women (2022)
Journal Article
The article argues that although the gradual recognition of non-State actors as agents of persecution was hailed as a success in ensuring better protection for refugee women at risk of harm from their community or family, the associated development o... Read More about Non-State actors of protection and the sliding scale of protection for refugee women.
Editorial: Sexuality, gender and asylum: Refugees at a crossroads (2022)
Journal Article
Human rights have been increasingly recognized irrespective of one's sexual orientation of gender identity (SOGI) at international, regional and domestic levels; however, legal frameworks do not yet tackle violations of such rights effectively. As a... Read More about Editorial: Sexuality, gender and asylum: Refugees at a crossroads.
One step forward, two steps back? Interpreting 'particular social group' in the European Union (2022)
Journal Article
The article tests the claim of feminist scholars that concerns about gender have been marginalised in refugee law, by exploring the interpretation given to the concept of a 'Particular Social Group' set out in the 1951 Refugee Convention. It is argue... Read More about One step forward, two steps back? Interpreting 'particular social group' in the European Union.
Asylum by numbers: UK policies on granting refugee status rely too much on statistics (2021)
Digital Artefact
Protecting unaccompanied children in the UK (2021)
Book Chapter
Fleeing contemporary armed conflicts in international refugee law: Judicial practice in the European Union (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
As the number of forcibly displaced people in the world today is the highest ever recorded and most are fleeing situations of armed conflict and widespread violence, queries regarding the continued relevance of the 1951 Convention relating to the Sta... Read More about Fleeing contemporary armed conflicts in international refugee law: Judicial practice in the European Union.
Gender and the boundaries of international refugee law: Beyond the category of ‘gender-related asylum claims’ (2019)
Journal Article
The adoption of gender guidelines aiming to ensure consistency in gender-sensitive interpretation of the UN Refugee Convention definition demonstrates a general acceptance that gender is relevant to the question of who is a refugee. However, there is... Read More about Gender and the boundaries of international refugee law: Beyond the category of ‘gender-related asylum claims’.
The impact of Brexit on gender and asylum law in the UK (2019)
Book Chapter
The UK Government has remained silent regarding the envisaged system of international protection for refugees in the UK after the UK leaves the European Union (EU). In this context, this chapter contributes to knowledge by examining the likely impact... Read More about The impact of Brexit on gender and asylum law in the UK.
The role of the European Court of Human Rights in the protection of women fleeing gender-based violence in their home countries (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This is an audio recording of a paper given at the Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, Newcastle University, 5-7 April 2017. More than one million persons crossed the Mediterranean Sea in 2015 into the European Union (‘EU’) leading man... Read More about The role of the European Court of Human Rights in the protection of women fleeing gender-based violence in their home countries.
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