Contents

List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Regionalism as a Response to a Global Challenge
Susan Kneebone and Felicity Rawlings-Sanaei

• Old regionalism: development of the international refugee protection system
• The 1969 Organisation of African Unity Convention
• The Cartagena Declaration
• The Comprehensive Plan of Action
• New Regionalism: UNHCR’s Convention Plus and Agenda for Protection

Chapter 1. The Migration–Asylum Nexus and Regional Approaches
Stephen Castles

• Introduction
• What is the migration–asylum nexus?
• Notes for a political economy of forced migration
• Regional responses
• Conclusion

Chapter 2. Strategies, Stories and Smuggling: Inter-regional Asylum Flows and Their Implications for Regional Responses
Khalid Koser

• Introduction
• Methodology
• The impact of asylum and immigration policies and procedures
• The role of social networks
• The growing significance of smuggling
• Implications of regional responses

Chapter 3. Forced Migration, Engineered Regionalism and Justice between States
Matthew J. Gibney

• Introduction
• History
• The need for justice amongst states
• The commodification objection
• Conclusion

Chapter 4. The Europeanization of Refugee Policy
Joanne van Selm

• Introduction
• What do we mean by Europe?
• How does Europe relate to the Refugees Convention refugee ‘policy regime’?
• What distinctions are there in national refugee policies across Europe?
• The European level: a Europeanized refugee policy?
• The future: a Europeanized refugee policy?
• Conclusion

Chapter 5. Europeanization of Citizenship and Asylum Policy: a Case Study of the U.K.
Nazila Ghanea

• Introduction
• EU policies on free movement, citizenship and nationality: the 1992 Maastricht Treaty and 1997 Amsterdam Treaty
• Free movement, citizenship, nationality and the development of EU asylum policy
• EU laws and policies and the impact of such on the situation of asylum in the U.K.

Chapter 6. North American Responses: a Comparative Study of U.S. and Canadian Refugee Policy
François Crepéau and Stephen H. Legomsky

• Introduction
• The Canadian refugee process
• The United States refugee process
• Canada–U.S. cooperation on immigration and border control issues
• Conclusion

Chapter 7. Australia, Indonesia and the Pacific Plan
Susan Kneebone and Sharon Pickering

• Introduction
• Australia’s refugee policy: from the CPA to Tampa
• Indonesia and the Pacific Strategy
• Protection under the Pacific Strategy
• Conclusion

Chapter 8. New Regionalisms, New Migrations and New Regulations in Africa: Asylum Seekers, Diasporas and Development at the Start of a New Century
Timothy M. Shaw

• Introduction
• Migrations and globalizations in Africa
• Migrations and the ‘new’ Africas
• ‘New’ regionalisms and contemporary migration
• Towards ‘new’ African regime(s) for migration at the start of the twenty-first century?
• New security dilemmas
• Implications for analysis and policy

Chapter 9. Regionalism, Human Rights and Forced Migration
Colin Harvey

• Introduction
• International refugee law and human rights protection
• Global, regional and national interactions
• Conclusion

Chapter 10. Conclusion: Challenges Ahead
Susan Kneebone

Index

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