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Oğuzhan Öztürk, Protection from Refuge: From Refugee Rights to Migration Management, Human Rights Law Review, Volume 23, Issue 4, December 2023, ngad027, https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngad027
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Protection from Refuge is an outcome of Kate Ogg’s PhD project at the Australian National University. In her book, Ogg illustrates how asylum-seekers, in their search for genuine sanctuary, employ national, supranational, and international judiciary and human rights bodies to challenge and confront the entrapment policies imposed on them by asylum-seeker receiving States. The book focuses on instances where refugees use the judiciary to protect themselves from States’ harsh refugee policies. Its aim is to fill the gap in understanding the role of litigation in the process of asylum seeking (p 2). To fill this gap, she asks ‘how do adjudicative decision-makers approach and determine protection from refuge claims?’ (p 16). In the book, Ogg examines the judgments from comparative and feminist perspectives (p 2). Ogg’s feminist perspective offers readers an understanding of certain international materials and how a positivist interpretation of those materials may cause additional barriers to women because of their gender. She further illustrates how the categorisation of refugees may lead to discrimination against women.
