@article{2023:costello:who_is_rec,
title = {Who is Recognised as a Refugee? Insights from Diverse Disciplines},
year = {2023},
note = {The implementation practices of ‹who is a refugee› vary widely in
their approaches and outcomes. Scholarship in legal anthropology,
sociolegal studies and comparative political science aims to
understand and to explain the different (and often inconsistent)
outcomes of when individuals seek asylum. In this forum article, I
provide an overview of this scholarship, critically reflecting its
benefits and limitations. The multidisciplinary research on refugee
status determination shows that outcomes depend heavily on extraneous
political factors, institutional design, and the personal
predispositions of individual decision-makers. It is, however, often
limited to European asylum systems, with a strong focus on decision
makers’ discretion. In light of these limitations of the existing
scholarship, the article concludes with a brief overview of the RefMig
project’s research, which has aimed to offer a more global view of
practices.},
journal = {Z'Flucht. Zeitschrift für Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung},
pages = {120--135},
author = {Costello, Cathryn},
volume = {7},
number = {1}
}