Nikolas Feith Tan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1245146 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nikolas Feith Tan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nikolas Feith |
| FAMILY NAME | Tan |
| SIGNATURE | TAN N F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Danish Institute for Human Rights |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7006-6097 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Cessation and the ‘temporary turn’ in asylum law and practice
You can never feel safe: Danish revocation practice and the production of radical uncertainty
This article explores refugees’ experiences with the Danish revocation process, arguing that this places them in situations of protracted radical uncertainty and analysing the concrete legal and administrative practices that contribute to producing this uncertainty. The analysis proceeds in three substantive sections. First, we locate refugees’ experiences during the revocation process within the literature on radical uncertainty. Second, we pres…
International Protection, Disasters and Climate Change
This paper starts by situating international protection as but one legal response to the situation of people outside their countries due to disasters (section 2). Instead, migration law will often be the primary framework for resolving mobility issues in this context. Nonetheless, for persons who do face a risk of harm, international protection law may potentially apply. The paper sets out guidance, for international protection purposes, on how t…
Refugee Externalisation Policies: Responsibility, Legitimacy and Accountability
Journal Article Refugee Externalisation Policies: Responsibility, Legitimacy and Accountability Get access Azadeh Dastyari , Amy Nethery, and Asher Hirsch (eds), Refugee Externalisation Policies: Responsibility, Legitimacy and Accountability ( Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, 2022) 238 pp, ISBN 978-0-367-76507-1 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-003-16727-3 (ebk) Nikolas Feith Tan Nikolas Feith Tan Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for Human Rights, Denmark nita@Hum…
Group-Based Protection of Afghan Women and Girls Under the 1951 Refugee Convention
The Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 deprived women and girls of their fundamental rights. The Taliban denied or severely restricted women and girls’ rights to education, work, healthcare, freedom of movement, opinion and expression, and to protection from gender-based violence. This article argues that the Taliban's treatment of Afghan women and girls amounts to persecution, and all Afghan women and girls should be recognised as …
Theorizing Local Migration Law and Governance
In many regions around the world, the governance of migration increasingly involves local authorities and actors. This edited volume introduces theoretical contributions that, departing from the 'local turn' in migration studies, highlight the distinct role that legal processes, debates, and instruments play in driving this development. Drawing on historical and contemporary case studies, it demonstrates how paying closer analytical attention to …
Externalisation, Access to Territorial Asylum, and International Law
Contains fulltext : 251853.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Community Sponsorship in Europe: Taking Stock, Policy Transfer and What the Future Might Hold
This article explores the recent emergence of community sponsorship of refugees in Europe, an approach which shares responsibility between civil society and the state for the admission and/or integration of refugees. Originally a Canadian model developed to support the resettlement of Indochinese refugees, the model has gained momentum in Europe, with a number of states piloting or establishing community sponsorship schemes. This proliferation, w…
A Topographical Approach to Accountability for Human Rights Violations in Migration Control
This Article develops what we call a “topographical approach” to accountability in migration control. Drawing on different strands of scholarship, including legal geography, “legal black holes,” and work on strategic litigation, we approach accountability by perceiving the site of a violation from a bird's-eye view and mapping different accountability structures across diverse legal regimes and via a broadened geographic lens. Rather than advocat…
Refuge beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers
Refuge beyond Reach is a rich interdisciplinary study of the deterrence policies of States in the global North. Given that Cathryn Costello recently described lack of access to asylum as ‘perhaps the single most prominent topic in refugee studies for the past three decades’,1 this book is a timely and pressing account of today’s ‘architecture of repulsion’ (p 6). FitzGerald’s sweeping study of four prominent global North jurisdictions – Australia…
The End of the Right to Seek Asylum? Covid-19 and the Future of Refugee Protection
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on the institution of asylum, exacerbating longer term trends limiting the ability of asylum seekers to cross-borders to seek protection. As a result, the early months of 2020 saw an effective extinguishment of the right to seek asylum. This working paper examines how this played out in Australia, Canada, Europe and the United States. National and regional responses varied, with Australia and the…
The End of the Deterrence Paradigm? Future Directions for Global Refugee Policy
Asylum seekers and refugees continue to face serious obstacles in their efforts to access asylum. Some of these obstacles are inherent to irregular migration, including dangerous border crossings and the risk of exploitation. Yet, refugees also face state-made obstacles in the form of sophisticated migration control measures. As a result, refugees are routinely denied access to asylum as developed states close their borders in the hope of shiftin…
The End of the Deterrence Paradigm? Future Directions for Global Refugee Policy
Asylum lies at the heart of the international refugee protection regime. Yet, today, most states in the developed world implement a range of deterrence measures designed to prevent access to asylum on their territories. With particular attention to Europe’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis, this paper categorizes contemporary deterrence policies. It then questions the sustainability and effectiveness of such policies. A number of deterrence …
The Status of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Indonesia
Indonesia is a transit country for asylum seekers and refugees from Asia and the Middle East. In the early 2000s, transit was relatively rapid as asylum seekers made their way onward to Australia by boat, but today, refugees face longer and longer waiting times as that avenue to protection has been closed. Indonesia is not a party to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and Southeast Asia has no human rights treaty. Indonesia ha…
The End of the Deterrence Paradigm? Future Directions for Global Refugee Policy
Asylum seekers and refugees continue to face serious obstacles in their efforts to access asylum. Some of these obstacles are inherent to irregular migration, including dangerous border crossings and the risk of exploitation. Yet, refugees also face state-made obstacles in the form of sophisticated migration control measures. As a result, refugees are routinely denied access to asylum as developed states close their borders in the hope of shiftin…
Community Sponsorship in Europe: Taking Stock, Policy Transfer and What the Future Might Hold
This article explores the recent emergence of community sponsorship of refugees in Europe, an approach which shares responsibility between civil society and the state for the admission and/or integration of refugees. Originally a Canadian model developed to support the resettlement of Indochinese refugees, the model has gained momentum in Europe, with a number of states piloting or establishing community sponsorship schemes. This proliferation, w…
You can never feel safe: Danish revocation practice and the production of radical uncertainty
This article explores refugees’ experiences with the Danish revocation process, arguing that this places them in situations of protracted radical uncertainty and analysing the concrete legal and administrative practices that contribute to producing this uncertainty. The analysis proceeds in three substantive sections. First, we locate refugees’ experiences during the revocation process within the literature on radical uncertainty. Second, we pres…
Group-Based Protection of Afghan Women and Girls Under the 1951 Refugee Convention
The Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 deprived women and girls of their fundamental rights. The Taliban denied or severely restricted women and girls’ rights to education, work, healthcare, freedom of movement, opinion and expression, and to protection from gender-based violence. This article argues that the Taliban's treatment of Afghan women and girls amounts to persecution, and all Afghan women and girls should be recognised as …
The End of the Deterrence Paradigm? Future Directions for Global Refugee Policy
Asylum lies at the heart of the international refugee protection regime. Yet, today, most states in the developed world implement a range of deterrence measures designed to prevent access to asylum on their territories. With particular attention to Europe’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis, this paper categorizes contemporary deterrence policies. It then questions the sustainability and effectiveness of such policies. A number of deterrence …
The Status of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Indonesia
Indonesia is a transit country for asylum seekers and refugees from Asia and the Middle East. In the early 2000s, transit was relatively rapid as asylum seekers made their way onward to Australia by boat, but today, refugees face longer and longer waiting times as that avenue to protection has been closed. Indonesia is not a party to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and Southeast Asia has no human rights treaty. Indonesia ha…
The End of the Deterrence Paradigm? Future Directions for Global Refugee Policy
Asylum seekers and refugees continue to face serious obstacles in their efforts to access asylum. Some of these obstacles are inherent to irregular migration, including dangerous border crossings and the risk of exploitation. Yet, refugees also face state-made obstacles in the form of sophisticated migration control measures. As a result, refugees are routinely denied access to asylum as developed states close their borders in the hope of shiftin…
The End of the Deterrence Paradigm? Future Directions for Global Refugee Policy
Asylum lies at the heart of the international refugee protection regime. Yet, today, most states in the developed world implement a range of deterrence measures designed to prevent access to asylum on their territories. With particular attention to Europe’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis, this paper categorizes contemporary deterrence policies. It then questions the sustainability and effectiveness of such policies. A number of deterrence …
A Topographical Approach to Accountability for Human Rights Violations in Migration Control
This Article develops what we call a “topographical approach” to accountability in migration control. Drawing on different strands of scholarship, including legal geography, “legal black holes,” and work on strategic litigation, we approach accountability by perceiving the site of a violation from a bird's-eye view and mapping different accountability structures across diverse legal regimes and via a broadened geographic lens. Rather than advocat…
Refuge beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers
Refuge beyond Reach is a rich interdisciplinary study of the deterrence policies of States in the global North. Given that Cathryn Costello recently described lack of access to asylum as ‘perhaps the single most prominent topic in refugee studies for the past three decades’,1 this book is a timely and pressing account of today’s ‘architecture of repulsion’ (p 6). FitzGerald’s sweeping study of four prominent global North jurisdictions – Australia…
The End of the Right to Seek Asylum? Covid-19 and the Future of Refugee Protection
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on the institution of asylum, exacerbating longer term trends limiting the ability of asylum seekers to cross-borders to seek protection. As a result, the early months of 2020 saw an effective extinguishment of the right to seek asylum. This working paper examines how this played out in Australia, Canada, Europe and the United States. National and regional responses varied, with Australia and the…
Community Sponsorship in Europe: Taking Stock, Policy Transfer and What the Future Might Hold
This article explores the recent emergence of community sponsorship of refugees in Europe, an approach which shares responsibility between civil society and the state for the admission and/or integration of refugees. Originally a Canadian model developed to support the resettlement of Indochinese refugees, the model has gained momentum in Europe, with a number of states piloting or establishing community sponsorship schemes. This proliferation, w…
Theorizing Local Migration Law and Governance
In many regions around the world, the governance of migration increasingly involves local authorities and actors. This edited volume introduces theoretical contributions that, departing from the 'local turn' in migration studies, highlight the distinct role that legal processes, debates, and instruments play in driving this development. Drawing on historical and contemporary case studies, it demonstrates how paying closer analytical attention to …
Externalisation, Access to Territorial Asylum, and International Law
Contains fulltext : 251853.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Refugee Externalisation Policies: Responsibility, Legitimacy and Accountability
Journal Article Refugee Externalisation Policies: Responsibility, Legitimacy and Accountability Get access Azadeh Dastyari , Amy Nethery, and Asher Hirsch (eds), Refugee Externalisation Policies: Responsibility, Legitimacy and Accountability ( Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, 2022) 238 pp, ISBN 978-0-367-76507-1 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-003-16727-3 (ebk) Nikolas Feith Tan Nikolas Feith Tan Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for Human Rights, Denmark nita@Hum…
Group-Based Protection of Afghan Women and Girls Under the 1951 Refugee Convention
The Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 deprived women and girls of their fundamental rights. The Taliban denied or severely restricted women and girls’ rights to education, work, healthcare, freedom of movement, opinion and expression, and to protection from gender-based violence. This article argues that the Taliban's treatment of Afghan women and girls amounts to persecution, and all Afghan women and girls should be recognised as …
International Protection, Disasters and Climate Change
This paper starts by situating international protection as but one legal response to the situation of people outside their countries due to disasters (section 2). Instead, migration law will often be the primary framework for resolving mobility issues in this context. Nonetheless, for persons who do face a risk of harm, international protection law may potentially apply. The paper sets out guidance, for international protection purposes, on how t…
You can never feel safe: Danish revocation practice and the production of radical uncertainty
This article explores refugees’ experiences with the Danish revocation process, arguing that this places them in situations of protracted radical uncertainty and analysing the concrete legal and administrative practices that contribute to producing this uncertainty. The analysis proceeds in three substantive sections. First, we locate refugees’ experiences during the revocation process within the literature on radical uncertainty. Second, we pres…
Cessation and the ‘temporary turn’ in asylum law and practice
Political science (13 works) · Law (9 works) · Refugee (9 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · European Criminal Justice and Data Protection (4 works)