Abstract
The current climate of insecurity has in a sense presented an opportunity for those with restrictive immigration agendas to use a new vocabulary to advance long desired objectives as well as new policies that sacrifice fairness and negatively affect immigrants. The result has been a decline in due process and the undermining of basic protections of international refugee and human rights law, including: the prohibition on arbitrary detention, embodied in Article 9 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; the prohibition on returning a refugee to persecution, the cornerstone of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol; and the right to asylum, contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The task that Arthur Helton flagged--ensuring that the rights of refugees are not violated in the new “securitized” climate--has become a monumental challenge.
Recommended Citation
Eleanor Acer,
Refuge in an Insecure Time: Seeking Asylum in the Post-9/11 United States,
28 Fordham Int'l L.J. 1361
(2004).
Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ilj/vol28/iss5/3