Advancing Refugee Protection in South Africa [Paperback]

Divided into three thematic parts to guide the reader, this important volume documents the development and implementation of refugee policy in South Africa over a 10-year period from 1996 until 2006. In doing so, it addresses issues of detention, gender, children and health as well as welfare policies for refugees. The contributions, all written by academics and practitioners of refugee protection, vividly illustrate the tangible shifts and concerns of a process that is not only aimed at establishing policies and legislation but also practices concerning refugees.

Lee Anne de la Huntwill spend two terms from October 2010 to March 2011 as a Visiting Fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Development.

Jeff Handmakeris a lecturer in law, human rights and development at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University in The Hague and honorary research fellow at the School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand.

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Introduction
Jeff Handmaker,Lee Anne de la HuntandJonathan Klaaren

PART I: THE DEVELOPMENT OF REFUGEE POLICY IN SOUTH AFRICA

Chapter 1.International and National Responses to the Challenges of Mass Forced Displacement
Guy S. Goodwin-Gill

Chapter 2.Regional Integration, Protection and Migration Policy Challenges in Southern Africa
Loren B. Landau

Chapter 3.Talking a New Talk: A Legislative History of the Refugees Act 130 of 1998
Jonathan Klaaren,Jeff HandmakerandLee Anne de la Hunt

Chapter 4.Refugee Status Determination Procedures in South African Law
Jonathan KlaarenandChris Sprigman

PART II: THE IMPLEMENTATION OF REFUGEE POLICY IN SOUTH AFRICA

Chapter 5.Due Process in Asylum DlC