Simon Behrman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4498443 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Behrman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Behrman |
| SIGNATURE | BEHRMAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1822-6564 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Climate Refugees: Global, Local and Critical Approaches
The last few years have witnessed a flurry of activity in global governance and international lawseeking to address the protection gaps for people fleeing the effects of climate change. This book discusses cutting-edge developments in law and policy on climate change and forced displacement, including theories and potential solutions, issues of governance, local and regional concerns, and future challenges. Chapters are written by a range of auth…
An Alternative Introduction: An Interview with the Editors, Which Never Took Place
This interview never took place, and the interviewer is a fiction of the editors’ imagination. The fact that she is a fiction of the editors’ imagination is entirely immaterial. The frustration felt by the interviewer was very real, and so was her annoyance with some of the editors’ answers. The critical questions that she asks are also very real, and so are the discussions that ensue – they all took place in the real world at one point or anothe…
Clamouring for Legal Protection: What the Great Books Teach Us About People Fleeing from Persecution
A book exploring forced migration in great novels and what it can tell us about contemporary legal processes for refugees is a much-needed addition to the literature. While the field of law and literature is now quite rich, books and articles that explore this relationship in the context of refugees and migrants are rather thin on the ground. This is surprising, as tales of migration are such a major part of literary works going all the way back …
The Stranger as My Guest: A Critical Anthropology of Hospitality
The prospects for refugees and migrants these days can seem unremittingly grim, from pushbacks in the Mediterranean by the European Union and its Member States, to the caging and separation of families at the United States–Mexico border, to apparently ever-greater depths of hostility towards migrants of all types in the polities of the globe. Michel Agier’s recently translated work (originally published in French in 2018) on the concept and pract…
Facilitating the Resettlement and Rights of Climate Refugees: An Argument for Developing Existing Principles and Practices
One of the most significant impacts of climate change is migration. Yet, to date, climate-induced migrants are falling within what has been defined by some as a ‘protection gap’. This book addresses this issue, first by identifying precisely where the gap exists, by reviewing the relevant legal tools that are available for those who are currently, and who will in the future be displaced because of climate change. The authors then address the rele…
Climate Refugees: Beyond the Legal Impasse
Current estimates of the numbers of people who will be forced from their homes as a result of climate change by the middle of the century range from 50 to 200 million. Therefore, even the most optimistic projections envisage a crisis of migration that will dwarf any we have seen so far. And yet attempts to develop legal mechanisms to deal with this impending crisis have reached an impasse that shows little sign of being overcome. This is in spite…
Refugee Law as a Means of Control
International refugee law has evolved as a means of control over the refugee. The first principles on which it has been built place the rights of the state above those of the refugee. Insofar as there is such a thing as a ‘right of asylum’, it is a right vested in the state rather than the refugee. As such, from the perspective of seeking a protection regime that places the needs of the refugee at its centre, it is a system that is fundamentally …
Refugees and crises of law
The word ‘crisis’ has been on everyone’s lips with regard to the mass arrival of refugees into Europe over the past couple of years. Behrman argues that the crisis can best be understood as one of law. More specifically, the Mediterranean migrant crisis is but the latest in a long series of crises of law, whereby attempts to control and manage the movements of forced migrants have failed on their own terms, let alone on upholding principles of hu…
Facilitating the Resettlement and Rights of Climate Refugees: An Argument for Developing Existing Principles and Practices
Migration and Neoliberalism: Creating Spaces of Resistance
Anne McNevin’s book provides a valuable contribution to ongoing debates about the plight of irregular migrants in the context of neoliberal hegemony. It combines detailed analysis of contemporary movements that resist the ever-increasing controls over borders and movement, together with critical assessments of a range of contemporary theorists on the question. McNevin’s central argument is that neoliberalism not only delineates the migrant subjec…
Accidents, Agency and Asylum: Constructing the Refugee Subject
Legal Subjectivity and the Refugee
The development of international refugee law since 1951 has long been seen as a necessary and positive thing for refugees. Without legal rights, so it is argued, the refugee is helpless before hostile host communities and capricious governments. The tragedy of recent decades has been the diminution of these rights and the dilution of the guarantees of the 1951 Convention. However, this article argues that the ability to receive asylum was not as …
Fertility and Family Planning: A World View
Fertility and Family Planning: A World View
Fertility and Family Planning
Fertility and Family Planning. A World View
Fertility and Family Planning
Between Law and the Nation State: Novel Representations of the Refugee
Given the degraded profile of the refugee in contemporary discourse, it is tempting to seek alternatives from a rich tradition of literary tropes of exile. However, this article argues that the romanticized figure of the literary exile ends up denying, albeit in positive terms, a genuine refugee voice, as much as the current impersonal hegemonic concept of the refugee as found in law. Ultimately, the spell in which refugees find themselves trappe…
Refugee Law as a Means of Control
International refugee law has evolved as a means of control over the refugee. The first principles on which it has been built place the rights of the state above those of the refugee. Insofar as there is such a thing as a ‘right of asylum’, it is a right vested in the state rather than the refugee. As such, from the perspective of seeking a protection regime that places the needs of the refugee at its centre, it is a system that is fundamentally …
Accidents, Agency and Asylum: Constructing the Refugee Subject
Fertility and Family Planning: A World View
Fertility and Family Planning
Fertility and Family Planning. A World View
Between Law and the Nation State: Novel Representations of the Refugee
Given the degraded profile of the refugee in contemporary discourse, it is tempting to seek alternatives from a rich tradition of literary tropes of exile. However, this article argues that the romanticized figure of the literary exile ends up denying, albeit in positive terms, a genuine refugee voice, as much as the current impersonal hegemonic concept of the refugee as found in law. Ultimately, the spell in which refugees find themselves trappe…
Between Law and the Nation State: Novel Representations of the Refugee
Given the degraded profile of the refugee in contemporary discourse, it is tempting to seek alternatives from a rich tradition of literary tropes of exile. However, this article argues that the romanticized figure of the literary exile ends up denying, albeit in positive terms, a genuine refugee voice, as much as the current impersonal hegemonic concept of the refugee as found in law. Ultimately, the spell in which refugees find themselves trappe…
Fertility and Family Planning: A World View
Fertility and Family Planning
Fertility and Family Planning. A World View
Fertility and Family Planning
Fertility and Family Planning: A World View
Legal Subjectivity and the Refugee
The development of international refugee law since 1951 has long been seen as a necessary and positive thing for refugees. Without legal rights, so it is argued, the refugee is helpless before hostile host communities and capricious governments. The tragedy of recent decades has been the diminution of these rights and the dilution of the guarantees of the 1951 Convention. However, this article argues that the ability to receive asylum was not as …
Accidents, Agency and Asylum: Constructing the Refugee Subject
Migration and Neoliberalism: Creating Spaces of Resistance
Anne McNevin’s book provides a valuable contribution to ongoing debates about the plight of irregular migrants in the context of neoliberal hegemony. It combines detailed analysis of contemporary movements that resist the ever-increasing controls over borders and movement, together with critical assessments of a range of contemporary theorists on the question. McNevin’s central argument is that neoliberalism not only delineates the migrant subjec…
Facilitating the Resettlement and Rights of Climate Refugees: An Argument for Developing Existing Principles and Practices
One of the most significant impacts of climate change is migration. Yet, to date, climate-induced migrants are falling within what has been defined by some as a ‘protection gap’. This book addresses this issue, first by identifying precisely where the gap exists, by reviewing the relevant legal tools that are available for those who are currently, and who will in the future be displaced because of climate change. The authors then address the rele…
Climate Refugees: Beyond the Legal Impasse
Current estimates of the numbers of people who will be forced from their homes as a result of climate change by the middle of the century range from 50 to 200 million. Therefore, even the most optimistic projections envisage a crisis of migration that will dwarf any we have seen so far. And yet attempts to develop legal mechanisms to deal with this impending crisis have reached an impasse that shows little sign of being overcome. This is in spite…
Refugee Law as a Means of Control
International refugee law has evolved as a means of control over the refugee. The first principles on which it has been built place the rights of the state above those of the refugee. Insofar as there is such a thing as a ‘right of asylum’, it is a right vested in the state rather than the refugee. As such, from the perspective of seeking a protection regime that places the needs of the refugee at its centre, it is a system that is fundamentally …
Refugees and crises of law
The word ‘crisis’ has been on everyone’s lips with regard to the mass arrival of refugees into Europe over the past couple of years. Behrman argues that the crisis can best be understood as one of law. More specifically, the Mediterranean migrant crisis is but the latest in a long series of crises of law, whereby attempts to control and manage the movements of forced migrants have failed on their own terms, let alone on upholding principles of hu…
Facilitating the Resettlement and Rights of Climate Refugees: An Argument for Developing Existing Principles and Practices
The Stranger as My Guest: A Critical Anthropology of Hospitality
The prospects for refugees and migrants these days can seem unremittingly grim, from pushbacks in the Mediterranean by the European Union and its Member States, to the caging and separation of families at the United States–Mexico border, to apparently ever-greater depths of hostility towards migrants of all types in the polities of the globe. Michel Agier’s recently translated work (originally published in French in 2018) on the concept and pract…
Climate Refugees: Global, Local and Critical Approaches
The last few years have witnessed a flurry of activity in global governance and international lawseeking to address the protection gaps for people fleeing the effects of climate change. This book discusses cutting-edge developments in law and policy on climate change and forced displacement, including theories and potential solutions, issues of governance, local and regional concerns, and future challenges. Chapters are written by a range of auth…
An Alternative Introduction: An Interview with the Editors, Which Never Took Place
This interview never took place, and the interviewer is a fiction of the editors’ imagination. The fact that she is a fiction of the editors’ imagination is entirely immaterial. The frustration felt by the interviewer was very real, and so was her annoyance with some of the editors’ answers. The critical questions that she asks are also very real, and so are the discussions that ensue – they all took place in the real world at one point or anothe…
Clamouring for Legal Protection: What the Great Books Teach Us About People Fleeing from Persecution
A book exploring forced migration in great novels and what it can tell us about contemporary legal processes for refugees is a much-needed addition to the literature. While the field of law and literature is now quite rich, books and articles that explore this relationship in the context of refugees and migrants are rather thin on the ground. This is surprising, as tales of migration are such a major part of literary works going all the way back …
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (11 works) · Refugee (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Refugee law (6 works) · Demography (5 works)