Human Rights and the Global Forced Migration Crisis
This book represents a comprehensive analysis of the global forced migration crisis (GFMC). It examines the key political and legal challenges confronting forced migrants in human rights law and practice. On the one hand, it analyses the impact of the GFMC on political and legal systems across various countries. Conversely, it examines the effect of the new policies and legal mechanisms on the refugee status determination (RSD) processes and immigration control. The book employs a comparative analysis method through five case studies: the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and Israel. The author focuses on the diverse policies, practices, and legal frameworks that influence the ability of forced migrants to seek asylum in various regions worldwide, along with the associated human rights consequences.
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This outstanding book offers a pioneering, rigorous, and comprehensive examination of one of the most pressing and complex challenges of our time - the Global Forced Migration Crisis. By integrating human rights, refugee law, and international relations into a coherent analytical framework, the author presents an innovative theoretical approach to understanding the phenomenon and assessing its legal, political, and humanitarian implications. The comparative analysis of migration and asylum policies in the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and Israel provides valuable insights into the challenges confronting democratic states in the twenty-first century. Combining theoretical originality with practical relevance, this study makes a significant scholarly contribution and will serve as an indispensable resource for academics, legal scholars, policymakers, and all those seeking to better understand forced migration and the policy responses it requires.
Rami Ginat is a Professor of Modern Middle Eastern Politics, Department of Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University.
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In this very important and topical book, Rami Goldstein addresses the inherent tensions, challenges, dilemmas, and contradictions, facing sovereign states, international organizations and NGOs when dealing with forced migration as a global issue in international relations. The Global Forced Migration Crisis (GFMC) carries obvious and paramount implications for domestic politics and legal systems, challenging the international human rights regime. Conversely, countries argue that they have their sovereign right to decide who is accepted within their borders. In a compelling comparative analysis of five cases involving democratic regimes (the EU, the United Kingdom, the USA, Australia, and Israel), the author offers an inter-disciplinary analysis combining legal studies and international politics to make sense of this important issue that affects both domestic and international politics.
Arie M. Kacowicz, Professor of International Relations and the Chaim Weizmann Chair in International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Human Rights and the Global Forced Migration Crisis – A Political and Legal Analysis is a superbly researched and written study that will set the standard in its subject area. In recent decades, questions associated with forced displacement of literally millions of people have risen to the top of the global mind. The timing of this volume therefore could not be better. The study identifies and pursues comprehensively the issues associated with human rights and forced migration – connectivity with globalization, the interstate security dilemma, the role of international organizations and NGOs, and so on. A new theoretical framework is applied to understand the diverse practices, policies, and legal frames of reference that determine outcomes for forced migrants vis-à-vis human rights. Case studies of states receiving a massive influx of migrants include the EU, UK, US, Australia, and Israel. In each instance, the government is found to have pushed back against the new arrivals, with long waiting times, limited resources, and other negative aspects consistently in place. The theorizing and case-based material of this study combine to produce many insights, notably the conclusion that increased international cooperation is essential in order to manage the crisis conditions that exist around the world for migrants in connection with human rights. In closing, this volume is a valuable resource for scholars, students, practitioners, and the general public. It is essential reading for anyone with interests in human rights, migration, and related subjects.
Patrick James, Dornsife Dean’s Professor Emeritus of International Relations, USC
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This book is highly recommended. Analytically and academically, the Global Forced Migration Crisis (GFMC) is a huge challenge to analyze and cope with. Since World War II, certainly towards the end of the millennium and deep into the 21st Century, millions were driven forcefully out of their countries or homelands and attempted to reach the first world, more specifically western Europe, North America and Australia. Along the way, many lives were lost and killed. Many drowned, were raped, tortured, maimed, mutilated, prosecuted and persecuted. Between seven to eight out of ten migrants did not reach their destinations; five to six out of ten migrants did not survive the first year of the journey. Various instruments and means were produced to answer the needs of these migrants (human rights, laws, conventions, charters, agreements, legal procedures, etc.), alas the majority were ignored or ridiculed. Laymen and scholars (Rami Goldstein NOT inclusive) would consider an academic attempt to analyze this gigantic human phenomenon (metaphorically described as the journey between the sending and the receiving countries) as hopeless and meaningless. But Dr. Goldstein’s book feels the gap. The internal and external conflicts and crises created by these colossal human waves are impeccably described and deciphered by Dr. Goldstein. He should be congratulated on the solid and balanced ways he uses in his research. His findings, recommendations and conclusions, as well as the practical and theoretical recommendations that the book offers, make it a must for those who deal with the issue of forced migrations both in the sending and the receiving countries.
Professor Amikam Nachmani
Political Studies Department
Bar Ilan University