Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Anne F. Bayefsky -- 1 What Is Forces Migration? / Arthur C. Helton and Eliana Jacobs -- 2 Towards a Comprehensive Approach to Protecting Refugees and the Internally Displaced / Monette Zard -- 3 (Mis)perception of Refugees, State Sovereignty, and the Continuing Challenge of International Protection / Brian Gorlick -- 4 The Frontiers of the Sovereign / Boldizsar Nagy -- 5 Living after Tragedy: the UN Baghdad Bomb One Year on / Gil Loescher -- 6 Life with Dignity: What Is the Minimum Standard? / Gerald Martone -- 7 The Emergency Alibi / Gerald Martone and Hope Neighbor -- 8 Again and Again: the UN’s Betrayal of the Internally Displaced in South and Central Iraq, 1991-2003 / John Fawcett and Victor Tanner -- 9 Taliban-run Afghanistan: the Politics of Closed Border and Protection / Norah Niland -- 10 Non-Refoulement through Time: the Case for a Derogation Clause to the Refugee Convention in Mass Influx Emergencies / Jean-Francois Durieux and Jane Mcadam -- 11 Human Rights, Refugees, and the Fate of Minorities / Bernard F. Hamilton -- 12 Refugee Jurisprudence, Crimes against Humanity, and Customary International Law / Ronald C. Slye -- 13 The Role of Human Rights Bodies in Protecting Refugees / Chaloka Beyani -- 14 International Human Rights Treaties and the Rights of Female Refugees and Asylum Seekers by Stephanie Farrior / Anne F. Bayefsky -- 15 The Alvarez Case and the Rule of Law / Paul L. Hoffman -- 16 Protecting the Right to Family Life in U.S. Immigration Proceedings: a Fundamental Right with a Limited Remedy / William J. Aceves -- 17 Are We Headed in the Right Direction? Reflections on the New (2001) Rules of Procedure of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Light of the Experience of the European System / Christina M. Cerna -- 18 Stars and Mud: the Participation of Refugee Workers in Refugee Policy Formation / David Matas -- 19 International Standards of Due Process for Migrant Workers, Asylum Seekersm and Refugees / Juan E. Mendez , Helena Olea and Andreas Feldmann -- 20 Equal Labor Rights for Undocumented Migrant Workers / Doug Cassel -- 21 Advocates Should Use Applicable International Standards to Address Violations of Undocumented Migrant Workers’ Rights in the United States / Connie De La Vega and Conchita Lozano-Batista -- 22 New International Human Rights Standards in Unauthorized Immigrant Worker Rights: Seizing an Opportunity to Pull Governments Out of the Shadows / Beth Lyon -- Index / Anne F. Bayefsky.

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An extraordinary volume with 28 of the world's leading refugee and human rights scholars and advocates in a wide-ranging examination of the major issues in the field today: the theoretical challenges of international protection; lessons learned from the field including Afghanistan, Iraq and Sudan; jurisprudential responses from courts and treaty bodies on the rights and responsibilities of protection; due process issues from Europe, Canada and the United States, and the special needs of migrant workers. The book brings together a unique group of experts including UNHCR officials, legal academics and practitioners, and uniquely tackles these crucial subjects from the perspectives of theory, legal practice, and advocacy.