Mass Refugee Influx and the Limits of Public International Law (Refugees and Human Rights, V. 6)

"The focus in the present volume has been set on a detailed examination of some legal preconceptions commonly found in situations of mass refugee immigration. The author concludes that situations when refugees arrive en masse do not, as a rule, qualify as a public emergency that threatens the life of the nation under contemporary international human rights law, and that mass expulsion of refugees as an emergency measure is prohibited at all times when this entails the risk of violating rights immune to derogation."--BOOK JACKET.