David Matas
Biographic Data
| ID | 6292397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Matas |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Matas |
| SIGNATURE | MATAS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cold Genocide
The article explores patterns of a cold genocide in the eradication campaign against Falun Gong. Falun Gong is a spiritual practice that has been targeted for eradication by the Chinese regime since 1999. In comparison to the documented cases of genocide, the genocide of Falun Gong stands out as anomalous because it is virtually ignored. The article seeks to elucidate the multi-faceted nature of this concealed genocide from an interdisciplinary p…
Protecting Boat People
Remarks prepared for delivery to Association Québécoise des Avocats et Avocates en Droit de l’immigration, Montreal 21 October 2011
Protecting Boat People
Reply to James Bissett
Bloody harvest
Falun Gong is a modern day spiritual/exercise movement which began in China in 1991 drawing on and combining ancient Chinese traditions. The Chinese Communist Party, alarmed at the growth of the movement and fearing for its own ideological supremacy banned the movement in 1999. Falun Gong practitioners were arrested in the hundreds of thousands and asked to recant. If they did not, they were tortured. If they still did not recant, they disappeare…
Refugee Determination Complexity
Refugee determination systems are complex and unfair. This combination is surprising. Why has government after government in Canada and around the world generated refugee determination systems that are both complex and unfair? The answer is that governments intrude into systems that would otherwise be both simple and fair, in order to assert control. They assert control in order to achieve other, non-refugee protection objectives. These nonrefuge…
International Human Rights Law and Legal Remedies in Expulsion
The article explores the international rights at issue in expulsion and the content of the corresponding effective remedy required of a State. International treaty body jurisprudence from individual cases is critically examined to expose progress and problems remaining for both the rights and the effective remedy. References are made throughout to the corresponding situation in Canada's domestic law. The article shows that when fundamental rights…
Racism and Migration
How can we combat racism against refugees and migrants? The answer is, it depends. It depends on the sort of racism we are attempting to combat. Racism against migrants and refugees is both official and unofficial, structural and personal. Personal racism, verbal and physical attacks on individuals by other individuals, overt, and explicit discrimination are the
Political Prisoners and Oppressed Persons Class and the Soviet Union
Private Sponsorship of Indochinese
T he Canadian Immigration Act states that one of its objectives is to fulfill Canada's international legal obligations to refugees and to uphold its humanitarian tradition with respect to the displaced and the persecuted. Canada's tradition here has not been solely humanitarian. At times it has been downright inhumane. The Act deliberately does not ask immigration policy makers to uphold the whole of Canadian tradition regardingthe displaced and …
The Self-Exiled Class
Events in Eastern Europe are forcing the West to rethink a whole range of policies. The Cold War froze into a fixed configuration a wide panorama of Western policiesnot just in defense and international affairs, not just in economics, but in immigration as well
A Task Force on Overseas Selection
Canadian Sanctuary
Amnesty International and Refugee Reforms
Racism in Canadian Immigration Policy, Part Two
Continued from page 9churches support a full appeal as of right.A minority, while supporting the full right of appeal for most appellants, favour the right of leave to appeal for a few carefully defined types of appellant.Sorne, among them the Representative for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, favour a centralized appeal, noting that in a regional process lack of a review of the reasons for denying claims would entail inconsist…
The Plight of Refugee Claimants
prevent claimants from doing too weIl financially
Racism in Canadian Immigration Policy
Canada As A Country of First Asylum
As A Country Of First AsylumShould Canada be a country of first asylum for refugees that choose ta come to Canada?Or should we be a country of secondary resettlement, and first asylum only for those refugees the Government of Canada chooses to admit?H.ight now only a few refugees choose Canada as a country of first asylum.The overwhelming majority of refugees Canada accepts each year are chosen by Canada either from their country of origin or fro…
A Refugee Claims Procedure
Private Sponsorship of Indochinese
T he Canadian Immigration Act states that one of its objectives is to fulfill Canada's international legal obligations to refugees and to uphold its humanitarian tradition with respect to the displaced and the persecuted. Canada's tradition here has not been solely humanitarian. At times it has been downright inhumane. The Act deliberately does not ask immigration policy makers to uphold the whole of Canadian tradition regardingthe displaced and …
Racism in Canadian Immigration Policy
Refugee Determination Complexity
Refugee determination systems are complex and unfair. This combination is surprising. Why has government after government in Canada and around the world generated refugee determination systems that are both complex and unfair? The answer is that governments intrude into systems that would otherwise be both simple and fair, in order to assert control. They assert control in order to achieve other, non-refugee protection objectives. These nonrefuge…
Racism and Migration
How can we combat racism against refugees and migrants? The answer is, it depends. It depends on the sort of racism we are attempting to combat. Racism against migrants and refugees is both official and unofficial, structural and personal. Personal racism, verbal and physical attacks on individuals by other individuals, overt, and explicit discrimination are the
Canadian Sanctuary
Canada As A Country of First Asylum
As A Country Of First AsylumShould Canada be a country of first asylum for refugees that choose ta come to Canada?Or should we be a country of secondary resettlement, and first asylum only for those refugees the Government of Canada chooses to admit?H.ight now only a few refugees choose Canada as a country of first asylum.The overwhelming majority of refugees Canada accepts each year are chosen by Canada either from their country of origin or fro…
A Refugee Claims Procedure
The Plight of Refugee Claimants
prevent claimants from doing too weIl financially
Racism in Canadian Immigration Policy
Amnesty International and Refugee Reforms
Racism in Canadian Immigration Policy, Part Two
Continued from page 9churches support a full appeal as of right.A minority, while supporting the full right of appeal for most appellants, favour the right of leave to appeal for a few carefully defined types of appellant.Sorne, among them the Representative for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, favour a centralized appeal, noting that in a regional process lack of a review of the reasons for denying claims would entail inconsist…
Canadian Sanctuary
A Task Force on Overseas Selection
The Self-Exiled Class
Events in Eastern Europe are forcing the West to rethink a whole range of policies. The Cold War froze into a fixed configuration a wide panorama of Western policiesnot just in defense and international affairs, not just in economics, but in immigration as well
Political Prisoners and Oppressed Persons Class and the Soviet Union
Private Sponsorship of Indochinese
T he Canadian Immigration Act states that one of its objectives is to fulfill Canada's international legal obligations to refugees and to uphold its humanitarian tradition with respect to the displaced and the persecuted. Canada's tradition here has not been solely humanitarian. At times it has been downright inhumane. The Act deliberately does not ask immigration policy makers to uphold the whole of Canadian tradition regardingthe displaced and …
Racism and Migration
How can we combat racism against refugees and migrants? The answer is, it depends. It depends on the sort of racism we are attempting to combat. Racism against migrants and refugees is both official and unofficial, structural and personal. Personal racism, verbal and physical attacks on individuals by other individuals, overt, and explicit discrimination are the
International Human Rights Law and Legal Remedies in Expulsion
The article explores the international rights at issue in expulsion and the content of the corresponding effective remedy required of a State. International treaty body jurisprudence from individual cases is critically examined to expose progress and problems remaining for both the rights and the effective remedy. References are made throughout to the corresponding situation in Canada's domestic law. The article shows that when fundamental rights…
Refugee Determination Complexity
Refugee determination systems are complex and unfair. This combination is surprising. Why has government after government in Canada and around the world generated refugee determination systems that are both complex and unfair? The answer is that governments intrude into systems that would otherwise be both simple and fair, in order to assert control. They assert control in order to achieve other, non-refugee protection objectives. These nonrefuge…
Bloody harvest
Falun Gong is a modern day spiritual/exercise movement which began in China in 1991 drawing on and combining ancient Chinese traditions. The Chinese Communist Party, alarmed at the growth of the movement and fearing for its own ideological supremacy banned the movement in 1999. Falun Gong practitioners were arrested in the hundreds of thousands and asked to recant. If they did not, they were tortured. If they still did not recant, they disappeare…
Protecting Boat People
Remarks prepared for delivery to Association Québécoise des Avocats et Avocates en Droit de l’immigration, Montreal 21 October 2011
Protecting Boat People
Reply to James Bissett
Cold Genocide
The article explores patterns of a cold genocide in the eradication campaign against Falun Gong. Falun Gong is a spiritual practice that has been targeted for eradication by the Chinese regime since 1999. In comparison to the documented cases of genocide, the genocide of Falun Gong stands out as anomalous because it is virtually ignored. The article seeks to elucidate the multi-faceted nature of this concealed genocide from an interdisciplinary p…
Political science (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Refugee (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Immigration (4 works) · International Law and Human Rights (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Economics (3 works)