Voting Rights of Refugees

Ruvi Ziegler is a tenured Lecturer in Law at the University of Reading, where he is Director of the LLM Programmes in International Law, Human Rights, and Advanced Legal Studies. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Working Paper Series, Refugee Law Initiative, University of London; Academic Fellow of the Inner Temple; Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford; and the Civil Liberties and Human Rights Section Convenor of the UK Society of Legal Scholars. Dr Ziegler is also a researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute, analysing questions of immigration, asylum, and citizenship as part of the 'Democratic Principles' project.

Foreword Guy S. Goodwin-Gill; Acknowledgements; Table of cases; Table of statutes; Table of treaties and other international instruments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Status and Rights of Recognised 1951 Convention Refugees in International Law: 1. Recognised CSR1951 refugees in context; 2. Rights of CSR1951 refugees and citizenship voting qualifications; Part II. Interrelations between Voting and State Citizenship: 3. Perspectives on the meaning and purposes of voting eligibility; 4. Perspectives on the meaning and purposes of state citizenship; 5. Citizenship voting qualifications - normative appraisals; Part III. Political Predicament and Remedies: 6. Out-of-country voting - the recognised CSR1951 refugee context; 7. Protecting recognised CSR1951 refugees outside their states of asylum; 8. Enfranchisement of recognised CSR1951 refugees in elections of their states of asylum; Bibliography; Index.