Interception and Offshore Processing of Asylum Seekers: The International Law Dimensions

Blay, S; Burn, JM; Keyzer, P

Interception and Offshore Processing of Asylum Seekers: The International Law Dimensions

Blay, S Burn, JM

Keyzer, P

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Publisher:: Halstead Press
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: UTS Law Review, 2007, 9 (1), pp. 7 - 25
Issue Date:: 2007-01

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dc.contributor.author	Blay, S	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Burn, JM https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6942-3429	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Keyzer, P	en_US
dc.date.issued	2007-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	UTS Law Review, 2007, 9 (1), pp. 7 - 25	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1442-4959	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/10482
dc.description.abstract	For decades the international community has conducted a delicate and politically charged balancing act trying to reconcile the inexorable increase in refugees-and the need to find permanent homes for them with the fundamental right of all countries to have secure frontiers. While the notion of non-refoulement remains fundamental to the treatment of asylum seekers, their rights vis A vis the states in which they seek asylum are significantly circumscribed by their alien status. States have a right to control entry to their territories. In the development of asylum law and policy, the central difficulty for states, and indeed the international community, is how to construct an appropriate balance between the urgent humanitarian demands to protect those who are genuinely in need of asylum, and the exclusion of those who do not qualify for humanitarian protection.	en_US
dc.publisher	Halstead Press	en_US
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dc.title	Interception and Offshore Processing of Asylum Seekers: The International Law Dimensions	en_US
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Abstract:

For decades the international community has conducted a delicate and politically charged balancing act trying to reconcile the inexorable increase in refugees-and the need to find permanent homes for them with the fundamental right of all countries to have secure frontiers. While the notion of non-refoulement remains fundamental to the treatment of asylum seekers, their rights vis A vis the states in which they seek asylum are significantly circumscribed by their alien status. States have a right to control entry to their territories. In the development of asylum law and policy, the central difficulty for states, and indeed the international community, is how to construct an appropriate balance between the urgent humanitarian demands to protect those who are genuinely in need of asylum, and the exclusion of those who do not qualify for humanitarian protection.

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