Wilde, R;
(2017)
‘Let them drown’: Rescuing migrants at sea and the non-refoulement obligation as a case study of international law’s relationship to ‘crisis’, Part II.
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Abstract
The situation of the movement of certain migrants to and within Europe since 2015 has been described as a ‘crisis’. A typical response from international lawyers has been to implore states to implement fully their relevant legal obligations, including in international human rights law. In the first half of this two-part post, I reviewed the argument to the effect that sea-rescues of migrants, allied to the extraterritorial application of the non-refoulement obligation in human rights law, incentivize dangerous smuggler-enabled journeys. In this second half of the post, I will appraise the merits of this argument.
Type: | Digital scholarly resource |
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Title: | ‘Let them drown’: Rescuing migrants at sea and the non-refoulement obligation as a case study of international law’s relationship to ‘crisis’, Part II |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
Publisher version: | http://www.ejiltalk.org/let-them-drown-rescuing-mi... |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Laws |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10067871 |




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