Transnational Asylum: Toward a Principled Framework (Routledge Studies in Human Rights) - Softcover

Tan, Nikolas Feith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032732156 ISBN 13: 9781032732152

Publisher: Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

This book presents an original framework of transnational asylum to inform future cooperation between states on asylum processing and refugee protection.

The book provides scholarly guidance on how policies can be undertaken in a way that conforms with the rights of asylum seekers and refugees under international law, asking if transnational asylum offers a workable model for lawful international cooperation and responsibility-sharing. It engages with the practical and legal modalities needed to ensure respect for binding obligations in the context of the current trend of rejection of territorial asylum among some states. The book puts forward a blueprint for how existing policies of deterrence and externalisation can be retooled to share, rather than shift, responsibility for refugees.

This book will be of key interest to scholars, students, policymakers and practitioners interested and working in Human Rights, International Refugee Law and Refugee Studies.

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About the Author

Nikolas Feith Tan is Senior Lecturer at Melbourne Law School in Australia and former Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. He is also Visiting Professor at the MOBILE Centre, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Senior Research Affiliate at the University of London's Refugee Law Initiative, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032732156
• ISBN 13: 9781032732152
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208