International Refugee Law and Socio-Economic Rights : Refuge from Deprivation (Hardcover)

1. Introduction; 2. A human rights framework for interpreting the Refugee Convention; 3. Persecution and socio-economic deprivation in refugee law; 4. Rethinking the conceptual approach to socio-economic claims; 5. Economic deprivation as the reason for being persecuted; 6. Economic disadvantage and the Refugee Convention grounds; 7. Conclusions.