This blogpost complicates the received wisdom on the origins of the Additional Protocol of 1967. Following B.S. Chimni, I argue that the need for the
Die politische Aushandlung, Formulierung und Verabschiedung der Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention vor siebzig Jahren ging mit einer rassistisch gefärbten Modernisierungspolitik in Staaten des Globalen Südens einher, die
The 1951 Refugee Convention and the UNHCR had a longer pre-history drawing on experiences influencing its further developments. A critical predecessor in this regard was
Whether internationally or nationally, law does not simply exist but is made by political actors; those involved thus have the power to set standards. Exactly
The Geneva Refugee Convention is not the only piece of postwar refugee law to survive into the present. The 1953 West German Federal Expellee Law
Historicizing past events is a double bind. It requires us to understand our object of interest in historical context, both in its contemporary situation and
This paper was presented at the Workshops “History and Memory in Refugee Research” of the DFG-Netzwerk Grundlagen der Flüchtlingsforschung. The paper is also accessible translated into