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課程名稱 |
難民法:國際法及比較法之觀察
Refugee Law: International And Comparative Perspectives |
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開課學期 |
111-2 |
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授課對象 |
法律學院 法律研究所 |
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授課教師 |
傅玫苓 |
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課號 |
LAW7806 |
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課程識別碼 |
A21EM23A0 |
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學分 |
1.0 |
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全/半年 |
半年 |
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必/選修 |
選修 |
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上課時間 |
第11,12 週
星期三6,7,8(13:20~16:20)星期五6,7,8(13:20~16:20) |
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上課地點 |
霖1304霖1304 |
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備註 |
本課程以英語授課。密集課程。13:20 to 16:20 on 5/3, 5/5, 5/10, 5/12, 5/17
限法律學院學生(含輔系、雙修生)
總人數上限：20人 |
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課程概述 |
This course will survey the international, regional, and national legal frameworks for protection of refugees and other forced migrants. We will focus on refugees from all over the world: Ukrainians, Afghans, Syrians, the Rohingya, East Africans, Central Americans, and many more. We will pay special attention to pressing current situations that have forced people to leave their homelands. I have included in each unit a journalistic report on current asylum seekers and refugees in order to provide some sense of the individual human dimensions of forced migration. |
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課程目標 |
By the end of this course students should:
• Appreciate the many forces affecting human migration and many types of migrants
• Understand the international and regional legal framework regarding refugees
• Appreciate the interplay between national law, regional law, and international law
• Appreciate the interplay between migration law and asylum law
• Distinguish between the refugee resettlement process and the asylum process
• Acquire facility in reading, understanding, and analyzing, complex legislation and treaties
• Put international, regional, and national legal concepts into practice by drafting petitions, opinion pieces, and/or legal decisions |
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課程要求 |
Each class will consist of a mixture of lecture and discussion. Student comprehension of the course materials will be assessed via student participation in class discussion, as well as via submission of a final written report on a refugee law topic. |
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單元主題 |
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第11-1週 |
May 3 |
INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE LAW FRAMEWORK
A. INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW OF FORCED MIGRATION
B. HISTORICAL ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION
C. OTHER INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS
Reading Assignments
Reports
◇ The Anchor, by Mattathias Schwartz, The New Yorker, April 21, 2014 (students will discuss this report during the last portion of this class)
◇ pp. 1-4, Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2021, UNHCR, https://www.unhcr.org/62a9d1494/global-trends-report-2021.
◇ Forced Migration: Law and Policy, read pp. 1-15 (concepts, terms)
◇ Forced Migration: Law and Policy, pp. 43-45 (UNHCR overview)
◇ Forced Migration: Law and Policy, pp. 49-58 (evolution of institutions and laws)
International Refugee Treaties and Conventions
◇ 1926 Refugee Treaty (skim)
◇ 1938 Refugee Treaty (skim)
◇ 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
o Art. 1(A)-(F) [refugee definition]
o Art. 12-24, 26-28
o Art. 31-33 [non-refoulement]
◇ 1967 Protocol
Other International Human Rights Instruments
◇ Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Art. 13-15
◇ International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Art. 12-13
◇ Convention Against Torture, Art. 1-5 |
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第11-2週 |
May 5 |
REFUGEE PROTECTION IN AFRICA
Case Study: The Peoples of Lake Chad, Central Africa
A. OVERVIEW
B. ARBITRARY EXPULSION
C. INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS IN AFRICA
Reading Assignments
Reports
◇ Lake Chad: The World’s Most Complex Humanitarian Disaster, by Ben Taub, New Yorker, Dec. 4, 2017 (students will discuss this report during the last portion of this class)
◇ Forced Migration: Law and Policy, pp. 60-64 (overview of regional developments)
Regional Treaties, Conventions, and Judicial Opinions
◇ OAU Convention on Refugees in Africa, Art. 1-3
◇ African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Art. 12
o African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
o African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights
◇ Anudo v. Tanzania, African Court on Human and People’s Rights
◇ Kampala Convention on Internally Displaced Persons, Art. 1(k), 2-5, 10-14
International Human Rights Instruments
◇ Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Art. 15
◇ UN Guidelines on Internally Displaced Persons |
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第12-1週 |
May 10 |
REFUGEE PROTECTION IN ASIA
Case Study: Tuvalu’s Sinking Islands
A. OVERVIEW
B. CLIMATE REFUGEES
C. CONTEMPORARY DISPLACEMENTS
1. The Rohingya
2. Hongkongers
D. REFUGEE PROTECTION IN TAIWAN
Reading Assignments
Reports
◇ One Day We’ll Disappear: Tuvalu’s Sinking Islands, The Guardian, May 16, 2019
◇ MPI Report, Human Rights, Migration, and Climate Change: Vulnerabilities in Asia-Pacific, 2014 (students will discuss the news article and this report during this class)
Regional Institutions and Practices
◇ Bangkok Principles on Status and Treatment of Refugees, 2001
o Articles 1- 4
◇ Asisan-African Legal Consultative Organization (AALCO)
o AALCO Member States
◇ Brian Barbour, Beyond Asian Exceptionalism, Forced Migration Review, July 2021
◇ Estey Chin, Uneven Refugee Protections Across Southeast Asia put Migrants at Risk
◇ UNHCR, Rohingya Refugee Crisis Explained, July 13, 2022
◇ Fire in Bangladesh Camp Adds to Rohingya Refugees’ Misery, New York Times, March 7, 2023
◇ Five Hong Kong Refugees in the UK, The Guardian, April 25, 2022
GUEST SPEAKER: REFUGEE PROTECTION IN TAIWAN
Ms. E-Ling Chiu, Executive Director, Amnesty International, Taiwan Branch
◇ International Treaties and Conventions
o Not state party to 1951 Refugee Convention or 1967 Protocol
o Not member of United Nations
o No UNHCR office
◇ Domestic Law incorporates human rights conventions
o International Covenant for Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
o International Convenant for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
o Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
o Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
o Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
◇ Special Programs
o Hongkongers
o Exiled Tibetans (naturalization in 2000, 2008-2009, 2016)
o Afghans, Myanmar, Ukrainians (two temporary projects)
o Descendants of ROC army (amnesty for arrivals 1999-2008; naturalization) |
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第12-2週 |
May 12 |
REFUGEE PROTECTION IN EUROPE
Case Study: Individuals Displaced from Ukraine
A. COMMON EUROPEAN ASYLUM SYSTEM (CEAS): EUROPEAN UNION
1. Components of the CEAS
2. Who Qualifies for Protection in Europe?
3. Which Country Should Decide the Asylum Claim?
4. Temporary Protection In Lieu of Asylum
B. EUROPEAN HUMAN RIGHTS: COUNCIL OF EUROPE
1. Art. 3: Prohibitioin of torture, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment
2. Non-refoulement
Reading Assignments
Reports
◇ Europe’s Child Refugee Crisis, by Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, February 27, 2017 (students will discuss this report during the last portion of the class)
◇ Fullerton, The Development of EU Asylum Law, from A Tale of Two Decades, pp. 1-11
◇ Fullerton, Temporary Protection for Ukrainians in the European Union [Excerpts], pp. 1-16
Regional Legislation and Judicial Opinions
◇ EU Qualification Directive (QD), 2011 (Recast)
o Art. 2(d) and (f), 9-10, 12 (refugee definition)
o Art. 15, 17 (subsidiary protection)
o Art. 21 (non-refoulement)
o Art. 24-25 (residence permit, travel document)
o Art. 29-30 (social assistance, health care)
o Art. 33 (freedom of movement)
◇ Elgafaji v. Staatssecretaris van Justitie, Court of Justice of the Union (CJEU) (subsidiary protection)
◇ Bundesrepublik Deutschland v. B and D (CJEU) (definition)
◇ EU Dublin Regulation, 2013 (Recast)
o Art. 7-11, 17 (which EU state is responsible for deciding asylum claim)
◇ M.S.S. v Belgium and Greece (ECtHR)
◇ Tarakhel v. Switzerland and Italy (ECtHR)
Regional Human Rights Convention and Judicial Opinions
◇ European Convention on Human Rights
o Art. 1-18 (skim)
o Art. 3, 13 (inhuman and degrading treatment, right to remedy)
o Art. 19, 34-35 (individual petitions to Court)
o Protocol 4, Art. 4 (no collective expulsion)
o Protocol 7, Art. 1 (procedural protections in expulsions of foreigners)
◇ Soering v. United Kingdom, European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)
◇ Salah Sheekh v. The Netherlands (ECtHR)
◇ Hirsi Jamaa v. Italy (ECtHR)
◇ Ayegh v. Sweden (ECtHR)
◇ N v. Sweden (ECtHR) |
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第13-1週 |
May 17 |
REFUGEE PROTECTION IN THE AMERICAS
Case Study: People Displaced from Venezuela
A. REGIONAL REFUGEE DEFINITION
B. INTER-AMERICAN HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK
C. NATIONAL REFUGEE LAW FRAMEWORK: U.S. REFUGEE LAW
1. Overview of Refugee and Humanitarian Protection in the United States
2. Overseas Refugee Resettlement Process
3. US Asylum Process
Reading Assignments
Reports
◇ Jake Halpern, The Underground Railroad for Refugees, The New Yorker, Mar. 2017
◇ Canadians Fume as Migrants Surge at their Border, New York Times, Mar. 2, 2023
◇ US and Canada Reach Agreement on Diverting Asylum Seekers, New York Times, Mar. 23, 2023 (students will discuss these reports in class)
◇ Forced Migration: Law and Policy, pp. 62-65 (overview of regional developments)
Regional Treaties, Institutions, and Judicial Opinions
◇ Cartagena Declaration on Refugees, Art. III (3)
◇ American Declaration of Rights and Duties of Man
o Art. I – II
o Art. XXVII
◇ John Doe et al v Canada
o Read para. 65-67, 89-103, 111-114, 128-132
◇ American Convention on Human Rights
o Art. 22 (7) & (8)
o Art. 34-45 (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights)
o Art. 52-69 (Inter-American Court of Human Rights)
US Legislation
◇ INA § 101(a)(42) (refugee definition)
◇ Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) §§ 207, 209 (refugee resettlement)
o US Refugee Overseas Refugee Screening (flow chart)
o The First 90 Days of Refugee Resettlement (flow chart)
◇ INA § 208 (asylum)
o Overview of US asylum affirmative and defensive procedures (flow chart)
o Asylum Overview, Module 1, Innovation Law Lab, https://vimeo.com//174455145
◇ INA § 241(b)(3) (non-refoulement)
◇ INA § 244(a)(1) (temporary protection - TPS)
o Update on TPS |
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