Digital Refugee Lawyering

Risk, Legal Knowledge, and Accountability

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12334060
AutoresKristin Bergtora Sandvik (0000-0003-4671-6410, University of Oslo, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume40
Fascículo4
Páginas414-432
Data de publicação2021-09-30
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoRefugee Survey Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1020-4067 • E-ISSN: 1471-695X
EditoraOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/rsq/hdab013
OpenAlexW3205583656
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas10

This article explores how the digital transformation of humanitarianism, and the refugee regime reshapes refugee lawyering. Much refugee lawyering is based on a traditional understanding of legal protection – and a focus on legal aid, law reform advocacy, and specific protection procedures (such as refugee status determination). Refugee lawyering must now grapple with the challenges offered by the digital transformation of international protection. This entails identifying emergent protection issues and how they relate to the law and legal claims. To that end, the article puts forward suggestions regarding the risks of the digital transformation as it pertains to the humanitarian space, the refugee management infrastructure, and refugee lawyering. The article also considers its implications for legal knowledge and the possibility that law may be “displaced” by technology. The article concludes by discussing what it means for refugee lawyering and for being accountable to the norms and values of rule of law standards, international protection, and to individual clients

Digital transformation · Political science · Refugee · Refugee law · Sociology · European Criminal Justice and Data Protection · Global Security and Public Health · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Law