The changes in North American policies on refugees since the attack on the World Trade Center will be explored in a panel discussion on Monday, April 7.
Titled "Refugee Policy in Canada and the U.S. Post-9/11," the event will be held noon-2 p.m. in the mezzanine of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St. It is open to the public. Lunch will be served.
The event is sponsored by the Committee on Canadian Studies, part of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS), and by the Department of Comparative Literature and the Article 13 Initiative.
The rules determining who qualifies as a refugee, as well as their specific rights and protections, were delineated in the 1951 Geneva Convention and the 1967 Protocol of the United Nations. The panelists will discuss those documents and how recent world events have called into question some of those standards. The topics to be explored include states' rights to limit asylum, third-country clauses, deporting refugee claimants, agreements between states, and internment.
The panelists will be:
* Debbie Anker, director of The Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program and a clinical instructor in immigration and refugee practice at Harvard Law School. Anker is author of "The Law of Asylum in the United States: A Manual for Practitioners & Adjudicators" and co-editor (with Paul T. Lufkin) of "Administrative Decision and Analysis."
* Robert Barsky, Canadian Bicentennial Visiting Professor at Yale and visiting fellow in comparative literature and at YCIAS. An authority in the study of refugee narratives and the Canadian adjudication process, he started the Article 13 Initiative and is author of "Arguing and Justifying: Assessing the Convention Refugee Choice of Moment, Motive and Host Country."
* James Hathaway, professor of law and director of the Program in Refugee and Asylum Law at the University of Michigan Law School, and senior visiting research associate at Oxford University's Refugee Studies Programme. A leading authority on international refugee law, Hathaway is the author of a leading treatise on the refugee definition.
* Julius Grey, professor of law at McGill University, and a noted immigration authority and human rights advocate. The author of "Immigration Law in Canada," Grey is also an expert on constitutional law and frequently contributes articles to the Canadian media aimed at expanding public knowledge of public policy issues.
For further information, contact robert.barksy@yale.edu.
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