Ronli Sifris’s scientific contributions

... Pioneering a human rights approach to refugee law, James Hathaway and Michelle Foster published in 1991 The Law of Refugee Status, which paved the way for further work that brings human rights law and refugee law closer (Hathaway & Forster, 1991). Authors have brought forward the study of regional more inclusive systems than that of the Refugee Convention, such as the Latin American or the African systems (Arboleda, 1991;Sharpe, 2018), while others have contested the false distinction from an empirical point of view showing that the reasons for migrating are often mixed (e.g. fear of persecution and search for better financial circumstances) (De Genova, Mezzadra & Pickles, 2015, pp. ...

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Progress in Migration and Asylum Law scholarship – International, Intersectional, and Interdisciplinary: Special Issue Progress in Legal Scholarship, Marnix Snel, Sanne Taekema & Gijs van Dijck (eds.)