Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1317697 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen |
| PRENOMES | Thomas |
| SOBRENOME | Gammeltoft-Hansen |
| ASSINATURA | GAMMELTOFT-HANSEN T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1518-137X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 128 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Forced migrants’ agency in first countries of asylum
This article examines forced migrants’ decision-making over time on movement from first country of asylum. Building on 150 in-depth interviews with Syrian refugees (A note on terminology: the term refugee is used colloquially by our participants, other scholars, the legal profession, and international actors to denote most Syrian migrants, yet it often means different things to its users. While many of our participants may be refugees, it is beyo…
Redefining the mobility paradigm in international law
From global tourism and free movement to refugees and climate-related displacement, human mobility is both a driver and an effect of what we think of as globalisation. Yet, the role of international law in constituting human mobility remains critically undervalued. In this contribution, we call for a radical rethinking of the role of international law in shaping our globe through the tenets of the mobilities paradigm in the social sciences. More …
Aux origines nationalistes de l’état-providence danois
Legal Infrastructures
This Article provides the outline for a conceptual framework focusing on legal infrastructures, comprised of socio-material assemblages and entangled legal normativities that both enable and constrain human societies. Section A introduces the growing transdisciplinary field of infrastructural studies, which employs the notion of infrastructure as a tool for analyzing the constitutive relationship between society and essential material structures.…
Citizenship as Legal Infrastructure
Whenever a person intends to cross a border, citizenship de facto determines—more than any other status—whether that person can enter the territory of another state. Yet, despite its ubiquity and centrality within global mobility infrastructures, the exact mechanisms through which citizenship shapes human movement on the planetary scale remain surprisingly ambiguous. This Article examines the multifaceted ways in which citizenship operates as an …
Cruise Ships in International Law
The notion of infrastructure has recently featured prominently in international legal scholarship. The ambition behind the turn to infrastructure in international legal theory is comparable to other large attempts to conceptualize the discipline. Yet, against the backdrop of work in the humanities and social sciences, theoretical engagement with infrastructure is still nascent in the legal discipline. In this Article, we build on another recent d…
Refugee agency in secondary mobility decision-making
Decisions made by millions of refugees about where to go, how to make a living and how to secure a future are fundamental drivers of secondary movements. While a substantial body of literature addresses factors contributing to migrants’ decision-making, a comprehensive understanding of the central role of refugees in secondary mobility decision-making, including agency and strategies employed, remains underexplored. This is partly due to the beli…
What role for law in refugee studies? Towards a transdisciplinary agenda
Refugee law has historically formed an important part of refugee studies. Yet, in the past decades, the legal study of refugees has increasingly developed out of sync with refugee studies more generally. The purpose of this special issue is to help bridge the gap between refugee law and refugee studies and foster a broader transdisciplinary research agenda on law within refugee studies scholarship. The special issue serves two overarching purpose…
Digital Evidence in Refugee Status Determination
Digital evidence is rapidly emerging as a tool for migration authorities in refugee status determination (RSD)-the procedure for determining whether a person meets the criteria for protection as a "refugee." Its growing popularity may be seen as a response to the relative dearth of "hard" evidence in asylum procedures, where decisions often hinge exclusively on the applicant's personal narrative and assessment of her credibility. In this essay, w…
Network analysis and comparative migration law
International migration law (IML) is famously fragmented, which provides fertile ground for comparative inquiry. However, this task is inhibited the heterodox nature of IML as it draws on a composite body of law that is expressed in different concepts, interpretations and languages. This paper presents network analysis as one useful methodology for navigating IML's normative architecture and empirically mapping case law and its interrelations. Pa…
Data-driven futures of international refugee law
As refugee law practice enters the world of data, it is time to take stock as to what refugee law research can gain from technological developments. This article provides an outline for a computationally driven research agenda to tackle refugee status determination variations as a recalcitrant puzzle of refugee law. It first outlines how the growing field of computational law may be canvassed to conduct legal research in refugee studies at a grea…
Network analysis and comparative migration law
Crisis
On a daily basis, we are alarmed by crisis reports concerning hurricanes and floods, economic and financial uncertainties, political instability, armed conflict, desperate refugees and migrants, and outbreaks of aggressive global diseases. Most recently, the still-unfolding COVID-19 pandemic highlights how many of these perspectives are both discursively and materially woven together. COVID-19 has emerged not only as a public health crisis, but a…
Mobility and legal infrastructure for Ukrainian refugees
The scale and speed of forced displacement following the Russian invasion on 24 February 2022 has been staggering. At the time of writing, an estimated 7 million have been internally and displaced and more than 5 million have fled Ukraine for another country – making it the largest refugee crisis in European history since the Second World War.1 The vast majority have arrived in neighbouring EU countries. In the course of 2 weeks, Poland alone rec…
Regime Entanglement in the Emergence of Interstitial Legal Fields
Cet article examine les processus politiques et juridiques par lesquels les droits de l'homme et le droit de la migration ont été confondus – nous l’appellerons plus généralement ici « l'enchevêtrement des régimes ». L'enchevêtrement des régimes implique que les différents domaines du droit non seulement interagissent, mais soient plus étroitement liés et s'influencent mutuellement. Les droits de l'homme et le droit de la migration ont historique…
Legal evolution and the 1951 Refugee Convention
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…
International Refugee Law between Scholarship and Practice
Current challenges to the traditionally privileged position of law in both refugee policy and refugee studies invite scholars to consider carefully the approach we take to our craft. This article argues that refugee law scholarship is surrounded by thin walls, as researchers broker the ‘dual imperative’ to simultaneously advance knowledge and protection in a field heavily influenced by policy interests and networks of practitioners that actively …
Introduction to the Symposium on Covid-19, Global Mobility and International Law
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, international mobility all but ground to a halt by the second quarter of 2020.1 Airline traffic dropped more than 70 percent, and thousands of grounded airplanes filled up the runways. All over the world, travel restrictions and quarantine measures are still in place at the time of this writing, and cross- border mobility remains largely shut down for all but the most essential forms of travel. Although some …
The case for Interdisciplinary Crisis Studies
In the world we live in today, the presence and claims of crisis abound - from climate change, financial and political crisis to depression, livelihoods and personal security crisis. There is a challenge to studying crisis due to the ways in which crisis as a notion, condition and experience refers to and operates at various societal levels. Further, different kinds of crisis can overlap and intersect with each other, and act as precursors or con…
The Normative Impact of the Global Compact on Refugees
When Ban Ki-Moon launched the idea of a Global Compact for Refugees in April 2016 it was with an ambition to secure new commitments in regard to the long-standing gap in international refugee law regarding international cooperation. To do so, he proposed that that the global compact should develop a principle of responsibility-sharing ‘through the application of standards that reflect the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol thereto, regional re…
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 …
Sovereignty at sea
International Refugee Law and Refugee Policy
Journal Article International Refugee Law and Refugee Policy: The Case of Deterrence Policies Get access Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen 1Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen, Denmark *[email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 27, Issue 4, December 2014, Pages 574–595, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feu030 Published: 30 September 2014 Arti…
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 case for Interdisciplinary Crisis Studies
In the world we live in today, the presence and claims of crisis abound - from climate change, financial and political crisis to depression, livelihoods and personal security crisis. There is a challenge to studying crisis due to the ways in which crisis as a notion, condition and experience refers to and operates at various societal levels. Further, different kinds of crisis can overlap and intersect with each other, and act as precursors or con…
International Refugee Law and Refugee Policy
Journal Article International Refugee Law and Refugee Policy: The Case of Deterrence Policies Get access Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen 1Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen, Denmark *[email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 27, Issue 4, December 2014, Pages 574–595, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feu030 Published: 30 September 2014 Arti…
International Refugee Law between Scholarship and Practice
Current challenges to the traditionally privileged position of law in both refugee policy and refugee studies invite scholars to consider carefully the approach we take to our craft. This article argues that refugee law scholarship is surrounded by thin walls, as researchers broker the ‘dual imperative’ to simultaneously advance knowledge and protection in a field heavily influenced by policy interests and networks of practitioners that actively …
Sovereignty at sea
Refugee agency in secondary mobility decision-making
Decisions made by millions of refugees about where to go, how to make a living and how to secure a future are fundamental drivers of secondary movements. While a substantial body of literature addresses factors contributing to migrants’ decision-making, a comprehensive understanding of the central role of refugees in secondary mobility decision-making, including agency and strategies employed, remains underexplored. This is partly due to the beli…
Mobility and legal infrastructure for Ukrainian refugees
The scale and speed of forced displacement following the Russian invasion on 24 February 2022 has been staggering. At the time of writing, an estimated 7 million have been internally and displaced and more than 5 million have fled Ukraine for another country – making it the largest refugee crisis in European history since the Second World War.1 The vast majority have arrived in neighbouring EU countries. In the course of 2 weeks, Poland alone rec…
Crisis
On a daily basis, we are alarmed by crisis reports concerning hurricanes and floods, economic and financial uncertainties, political instability, armed conflict, desperate refugees and migrants, and outbreaks of aggressive global diseases. Most recently, the still-unfolding COVID-19 pandemic highlights how many of these perspectives are both discursively and materially woven together. COVID-19 has emerged not only as a public health crisis, but a…
Data-driven futures of international refugee law
As refugee law practice enters the world of data, it is time to take stock as to what refugee law research can gain from technological developments. This article provides an outline for a computationally driven research agenda to tackle refugee status determination variations as a recalcitrant puzzle of refugee law. It first outlines how the growing field of computational law may be canvassed to conduct legal research in refugee studies at a grea…
Legal evolution and the 1951 Refugee Convention
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 …
What role for law in refugee studies? Towards a transdisciplinary agenda
Refugee law has historically formed an important part of refugee studies. Yet, in the past decades, the legal study of refugees has increasingly developed out of sync with refugee studies more generally. The purpose of this special issue is to help bridge the gap between refugee law and refugee studies and foster a broader transdisciplinary research agenda on law within refugee studies scholarship. The special issue serves two overarching purpose…
Digital Evidence in Refugee Status Determination
Digital evidence is rapidly emerging as a tool for migration authorities in refugee status determination (RSD)-the procedure for determining whether a person meets the criteria for protection as a "refugee." Its growing popularity may be seen as a response to the relative dearth of "hard" evidence in asylum procedures, where decisions often hinge exclusively on the applicant's personal narrative and assessment of her credibility. In this essay, w…
Introduction to the Symposium on Covid-19, Global Mobility and International Law
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, international mobility all but ground to a halt by the second quarter of 2020.1 Airline traffic dropped more than 70 percent, and thousands of grounded airplanes filled up the runways. All over the world, travel restrictions and quarantine measures are still in place at the time of this writing, and cross- border mobility remains largely shut down for all but the most essential forms of travel. Although some …
Access to Asylum
Is there still a right to seek asylum in a globalised world? Migration control has increasingly moved to the high seas or the territory of transit and origin countries, and is now commonly outsourced to private actors. Under threat of financial penalties airlines today reject any passenger not in possession of a valid visa, and private contractors are used to run detention centres and man border crossings. In this volume Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen …
The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration
Introduction Ninna Nyberg Sorensen and Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen 1. Conceptualizing the Migration Industry Ruben Hernandez-Leon 2. The Migration Industry in Global Migration Governance Alexander Betts 3. Migration Trajectories and the Migration Industry: Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Examples from Asia Ernst Spaan and Felicitas Hillmann 4. The Migration Industry and Development States in East Asia Kristin Surak 5. The Neoliberalized State …
Sovereignty at sea
International Refugee Law and Refugee Policy
Journal Article International Refugee Law and Refugee Policy: The Case of Deterrence Policies Get access Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen 1Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen, Denmark *[email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 27, Issue 4, December 2014, Pages 574–595, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feu030 Published: 30 September 2014 Arti…
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 Normative Impact of the Global Compact on Refugees
When Ban Ki-Moon launched the idea of a Global Compact for Refugees in April 2016 it was with an ambition to secure new commitments in regard to the long-standing gap in international refugee law regarding international cooperation. To do so, he proposed that that the global compact should develop a principle of responsibility-sharing ‘through the application of standards that reflect the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol thereto, regional re…
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…
International Refugee Law between Scholarship and Practice
Current challenges to the traditionally privileged position of law in both refugee policy and refugee studies invite scholars to consider carefully the approach we take to our craft. This article argues that refugee law scholarship is surrounded by thin walls, as researchers broker the ‘dual imperative’ to simultaneously advance knowledge and protection in a field heavily influenced by policy interests and networks of practitioners that actively …
Introduction to the Symposium on Covid-19, Global Mobility and International Law
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, international mobility all but ground to a halt by the second quarter of 2020.1 Airline traffic dropped more than 70 percent, and thousands of grounded airplanes filled up the runways. All over the world, travel restrictions and quarantine measures are still in place at the time of this writing, and cross- border mobility remains largely shut down for all but the most essential forms of travel. Although some …
The case for Interdisciplinary Crisis Studies
In the world we live in today, the presence and claims of crisis abound - from climate change, financial and political crisis to depression, livelihoods and personal security crisis. There is a challenge to studying crisis due to the ways in which crisis as a notion, condition and experience refers to and operates at various societal levels. Further, different kinds of crisis can overlap and intersect with each other, and act as precursors or con…
Regime Entanglement in the Emergence of Interstitial Legal Fields
Cet article examine les processus politiques et juridiques par lesquels les droits de l'homme et le droit de la migration ont été confondus – nous l’appellerons plus généralement ici « l'enchevêtrement des régimes ». L'enchevêtrement des régimes implique que les différents domaines du droit non seulement interagissent, mais soient plus étroitement liés et s'influencent mutuellement. Les droits de l'homme et le droit de la migration ont historique…
Legal evolution and the 1951 Refugee Convention
Network analysis and comparative migration law
Crisis
On a daily basis, we are alarmed by crisis reports concerning hurricanes and floods, economic and financial uncertainties, political instability, armed conflict, desperate refugees and migrants, and outbreaks of aggressive global diseases. Most recently, the still-unfolding COVID-19 pandemic highlights how many of these perspectives are both discursively and materially woven together. COVID-19 has emerged not only as a public health crisis, but a…
Mobility and legal infrastructure for Ukrainian refugees
The scale and speed of forced displacement following the Russian invasion on 24 February 2022 has been staggering. At the time of writing, an estimated 7 million have been internally and displaced and more than 5 million have fled Ukraine for another country – making it the largest refugee crisis in European history since the Second World War.1 The vast majority have arrived in neighbouring EU countries. In the course of 2 weeks, Poland alone rec…
Network analysis and comparative migration law
International migration law (IML) is famously fragmented, which provides fertile ground for comparative inquiry. However, this task is inhibited the heterodox nature of IML as it draws on a composite body of law that is expressed in different concepts, interpretations and languages. This paper presents network analysis as one useful methodology for navigating IML's normative architecture and empirically mapping case law and its interrelations. Pa…
Data-driven futures of international refugee law
As refugee law practice enters the world of data, it is time to take stock as to what refugee law research can gain from technological developments. This article provides an outline for a computationally driven research agenda to tackle refugee status determination variations as a recalcitrant puzzle of refugee law. It first outlines how the growing field of computational law may be canvassed to conduct legal research in refugee studies at a grea…
Legal Infrastructures
This Article provides the outline for a conceptual framework focusing on legal infrastructures, comprised of socio-material assemblages and entangled legal normativities that both enable and constrain human societies. Section A introduces the growing transdisciplinary field of infrastructural studies, which employs the notion of infrastructure as a tool for analyzing the constitutive relationship between society and essential material structures.…
Citizenship as Legal Infrastructure
Whenever a person intends to cross a border, citizenship de facto determines—more than any other status—whether that person can enter the territory of another state. Yet, despite its ubiquity and centrality within global mobility infrastructures, the exact mechanisms through which citizenship shapes human movement on the planetary scale remain surprisingly ambiguous. This Article examines the multifaceted ways in which citizenship operates as an …
Cruise Ships in International Law
The notion of infrastructure has recently featured prominently in international legal scholarship. The ambition behind the turn to infrastructure in international legal theory is comparable to other large attempts to conceptualize the discipline. Yet, against the backdrop of work in the humanities and social sciences, theoretical engagement with infrastructure is still nascent in the legal discipline. In this Article, we build on another recent d…
Refugee agency in secondary mobility decision-making
Decisions made by millions of refugees about where to go, how to make a living and how to secure a future are fundamental drivers of secondary movements. While a substantial body of literature addresses factors contributing to migrants’ decision-making, a comprehensive understanding of the central role of refugees in secondary mobility decision-making, including agency and strategies employed, remains underexplored. This is partly due to the beli…
What role for law in refugee studies? Towards a transdisciplinary agenda
Refugee law has historically formed an important part of refugee studies. Yet, in the past decades, the legal study of refugees has increasingly developed out of sync with refugee studies more generally. The purpose of this special issue is to help bridge the gap between refugee law and refugee studies and foster a broader transdisciplinary research agenda on law within refugee studies scholarship. The special issue serves two overarching purpose…
Digital Evidence in Refugee Status Determination
Digital evidence is rapidly emerging as a tool for migration authorities in refugee status determination (RSD)-the procedure for determining whether a person meets the criteria for protection as a "refugee." Its growing popularity may be seen as a response to the relative dearth of "hard" evidence in asylum procedures, where decisions often hinge exclusively on the applicant's personal narrative and assessment of her credibility. In this essay, w…
Redefining the mobility paradigm in international law
From global tourism and free movement to refugees and climate-related displacement, human mobility is both a driver and an effect of what we think of as globalisation. Yet, the role of international law in constituting human mobility remains critically undervalued. In this contribution, we call for a radical rethinking of the role of international law in shaping our globe through the tenets of the mobilities paradigm in the social sciences. More …
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