National Security and Refugee Protection
Critical Comparative Analysis of the Cases of the European Union, the United States and South Africa
Will be published approx. on 17. December 2026
Book
Hardback
978-90-04-70451-0 (ISBN)
Description
Why are refugees increasingly treated as security threats? This book invites you to look beyond migration "crises" and examine how law and policy actively securitize refugees and asylum seekers. Through a critical comparative analysis of the European Union, the United States, and South Africa, you see how security logics reshape asylum systems, restrict rights, and redistribute responsibility. Drawing on international law and critical social science perspectives, the book reveals the legal techniques, political actors, and historical legacies that normalize exceptional measures against vulnerable groups. It offers a timely and original contribution to debates on migration governance, refugee protection, and international order.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
ISBN-13
978-90-04-70451-0 (9789004704510)
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Laura Planas Gifra is a researcher and lecturer in public international law at the University of Girona. She holds a PhD in Law (cum laude) from Pompeu Fabra University and an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from Georgetown University. She has also worked as a consultant at the United Nations Secretariat in New York. Her research focuses on migration and refugee governance, international law, borders, security, and human rights, with particular attention to critical and postcolonial approaches. She is the author of Law, Security and Migration: The Nationalistic Turn in the International Order (Routledge). Her work combines legal analysis with critical social science perspectives to examine power, responsibility, and global order in contemporary migration regimes.