Christel Querton's Outputs (31)

Protection from indiscriminate violence in armed conflict: The scope of subsidiary protection in the European Union (2024)
Journal Article

The article discusses the relationship between subsidiary protection status granted to persons fleeing indiscriminate violence in armed conflicts under Article 15(c) of the EU Qualification Directive/Regulation and international humanitarian law. Thi... Read More about Protection from indiscriminate violence in armed conflict: The scope of subsidiary protection in the European Union.

Submission to inform Chile Declaration and Action Plan in the context of the Cartagena +40 multi-stakeholder pledge (2024)
Report

Women in Refugee Law (WiRL)'s submission regarding the particular challenges that women refugees face in the Latin America and Caribbean region aims to inform the Cartagena +40 process and next ten-year action plan.

WiRL’s submission identified tw... Read More about Submission to inform Chile Declaration and Action Plan in the context of the Cartagena +40 multi-stakeholder pledge.

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 (2024)
Report

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.

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

Protracted conflicts and the protection of women in refugee law (2023)
Book Chapter

The chapter explores the question of whether women fleeing armed conflicts are refugees as defined by the Refugee Convention. It analyses international and regional legal frameworks and UNHCR Guidelines to discuss whether international refugee law is... Read More about Protracted conflicts and the protection of women in refugee law.

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.

Access to protection for women seeking asylum in the UK (2022)
Book Chapter

In this chapter, we explore how the changes to UK asylum law, policy and process adopted in the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 will impact women seeking asylum in the UK.

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

A commentary on the use of quantitative assessments to determine risk in Country Policy and Information Notes (CPINs) issued by the UK Home Office (2021)
Report

Case notes and comments: Secretary of state for the Home Department v OA [2021] EUECJ C-255/19 (2021)
Journal Article

The fall of Kabul: International protection in the context of the armed conflict and violence in Afghanistan (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’.

Book review: Protecting the Rights of Refugees Beyond European Borders, by Lisa Heschl. (Cambridge: Intersentia, 2018) (2019)
Journal Article

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.

Women fleeing armed conflict in their home countries continue to face disproportionate threats to their safety in Europe (2016)
Other

This is a blog piece.

Case notes and comments: MK (section 55 – Tribunal options) [2015] UKUT 223 (IAC) (15 April 2015) (2015)
Journal Article

Women fleeing armed conflict: Seeking international protection in the United Kingdom (2014)
Book Chapter

This chapter considers how the interpretation of the Refugee Convention in United Kingdom jurisprudence has adapted to the changing nature of armed conflict generally. It also looks at whether the differential impact of armed conflict on women has perm... Read More about Women fleeing armed conflict: Seeking international protection in the United Kingdom.

Gender related asylum claims in Europe: A comparative analysis of law, policies and practice focusing on women in nine EU member states (2012)
Report

Unfair, unsafe and undignified: The treatment of women seeking asylum in the UK (2012)
Newspaper / Magazine

The interpretation of the convention ground of `membership of a particular social group´ in the context of gender-related claims for asylum (2012)
Preprint / Working Paper

Despite often making `conventional claims’ for asylum based on their political opinion, race, nationality or religion, many women also claim asylum in the United Kingdom (UK) on the basis that they fear persecution because of their gender. To be reco... Read More about The interpretation of the convention ground of `membership of a particular social group´ in the context of gender-related claims for asylum.

“I feel like as a woman I’m not welcome": A gender analysis of UK asylum law, policy and practice (2012)
Report

Persons fleeing armed conflicts and country guidance in the European Union
Report

This briefing sets out some of the main findings from the project 'Country Guidance and the International Protection Needs of Persons Fleeing Armed Conflicts' (2021-2022).

The role of the European Court of Human Rights in the protection of women fleeing gender-based violence in their home countries
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.