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Postgraduate Module Descriptor
LAWM715: International Migration and the Law
This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 academic year.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Opeskin, B, Perruchoud, R, and Redpath-Cross, J, Foundations of International Migration Law (Cambridge University Press, latest edition)
Rubio-Marin, R. ed. Human Rights and Immigration (Oxford University Press, 2014)
Other reading will be set on a week by week basis.
Books from which further reading will be set include:
Brettell C. and Hollifield J. eds. (2014) Migration Theory: Talking across Disciplines (Routledge: Third edition)
Dembour, M. (2015) When Humans Become Migrants: Study of the European Court of Human Rights with an Inter-American Counterpoint (Oxford University Press)
Hathaway, J. and Foster, M. (2014) The Law of Refugee Status (Cambridge University Press)
Students will be directed to articles in a number of journals including:
European Journal of Migration and Law
Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law
International Journal of Refugee Law
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Modern Law Review