Kudos for your great work in #research4refugees, UVic Law students!
In the interests of expediency, we’re posting here the research resources you need to get started. Later, we can formalize into an more structured research guide. You will also find us at the law school or in the library on Saturday to offer a guiding hand.
And watch this space—It is growing by the minute!
New! (added 4:20 pm, Friday Feb 3)
We’ve added a brief list of relevant secondary sources available in the law library, a growing list at the bottom of this post.
- The emergency debate:
- Canada Parliament House of Commons ->> Parliamentary Business ->> Calendar of debates – from here link to the under the “Related Links” the Webcase (ParlVu) link
- Use the ParlVu calendar, find January 31: The emergency debate is at the end of the day at about 18:58
- Our International Human Rights Law research guide (prepared by Alex)
- (new pages coming for this project)
- Justice Laws Website Immigration and Refugee Protection Act Sc 2001 c 27 and Regulations including the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (SOR/2002-227)
- 2012 Immigration act amendments: Bill C-31 1st sess 41st Parl 2012, SC 2012 c 17:
- Minister Kenney announces removal of exception relating to safe third country agreement. (2009). Marketwire
- The former section <new item>
- The repealing regulation, SOR2009/210 with Minister’s impact statement
- More on Minister Kenney 2009 amendments (commentary)
- Migration Policy Institute <new item>
Other sources (added 2:25 pm, Friday Feb 3)
- #research4refugees website
- Canadian law school students band together to help refugees banned by Trump (CBC News) —featuring UVicLaw’s Professor Donald Gallloway and student Leila Geggie Hurst
And of course if you haven’t taken LAW 323 or LAW 342, don’t forget to orient yourself with some key secondary sources:
- Immigration Law (reserve)—Liew, Galloway (and ebook)
- Immigration and refugee law: cases, materials, and commentary—Aiken, Galloway, Grey
- The Law of Refugee Status—Hathaway, Foster
- Canada’s refugee determination procedure: a guide for the post-Bill C-31 era—Waldman, Swaisland
- Canadian immigration & refugee law practice—Lorne Waldman
- Immigration law and practice—Lorne Waldman
- Annotated Immigration and Refugee Protection Act of Canada 2017—Goslett, Caruso
- Brownlie’s documents on human rights—Brownlie, Goodwin-Gill
- The refugee in international law—Goodwin-Gill, McAdam
US resources
- A brief overview of US legal research for Canadian legal researchers, with links to key sources:
US legal research 24 Feb 2016 CC ppt
- US Immigration Law overview from Wex, Cornell LII’s legal encyclopedia
- Wayback Machine—for accessing content in broken links (Internet Archive)
- HeinOnline Immigration Law & Policy in the US—trial database (netlink required) <new>
- WestlawNext (US)—Immigration Secondary Sources (WestlawNext Canada password required)
- Lexis Advance Quicklaw – United States Code Service (USCS). Annotated. Access via International News and Companies section. (Lexis Advaance Quicklaw password required)
Other commentary:
Bordering on Failure : Canada-U.S. Border Policy and the Politics of Refugee Exclusion , Harvard Immigration and Refugee Law Clinical Program, 2013.
Audrey Macklin, Disappearing Refugees: Reflections on the Canada-U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement, (2004-2005) 36 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 365 The article provides background on the agreement such as below:
HANDS ACROSS THE BORDER:Working Together at our Shared Border and Abroad to Ensure Safety, Security and Efficiency. Report of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, December 2002
Government Response to the Report of the Standing Committee
on Citizenship and Immigration Safe Third Country Regulations, May 2003
(As we’re pulling this together pretty quickly, we might have typos or link errors in some of the content above. If you spot any, please inform us and we’ll fix asap.)
EU Asylum Policies [electronic resource] : the Power of Strong Regulating States / Natascha Zaun Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) ebook
Added July 2017