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Country guidance, country of origin information and the international protection needs of persons fleeing armed conflicts (2023)
Journal Article
Querton, C. (2023). Country guidance, country of origin information and the international protection needs of persons fleeing armed conflicts. Refugee Survey Quarterly, 42(2), 204-244. https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdad003

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.

Non-State actors of protection and the sliding scale of protection for refugee women (2022)
Journal Article
Querton, C. (2022). Non-State actors of protection and the sliding scale of protection for refugee women. Refugee Survey Quarterly, 41(3), 444-471. https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdac020

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.

One step forward, two steps back? Interpreting 'particular social group' in the European Union (2022)
Journal Article
Querton, C. (2022). One step forward, two steps back? Interpreting 'particular social group' in the European Union. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 71(2), 425 - 451. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020589322000021

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.

Gender and the boundaries of international refugee law: Beyond the category of ‘gender-related asylum claims’ (2019)
Journal Article
Querton, C. (2019). Gender and the boundaries of international refugee law: Beyond the category of ‘gender-related asylum claims’. Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 37(4), 379-397. https://doi.org/10.1177/0924051919884764

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’.