'Boat Refugees' and Migrants at Sea: A Comprehensive Approach

‘Boat Refugees’ and Migrants at Sea: A Comprehensive Approach: Integrating Maritime Security with Human Rights
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Introduction: Tracing the Bases of an Integrated Paradigm for Maritime Security and Human Rights at Sea
1 Setting the Scene: Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Migrants at Sea – the Need for a Long-term, Protection-Centred Vision
Part 1: Structural Complexities: Security, Sovereignty & Anonymity at Sea
	2 A Maritime Security Framework for the Legal Dimensions of Irregular Migration by Sea
	3 The Perfect Storm: Sovereignty Games and the Law and Politics of Boat Migration
	4 Who is the ‘Boat Migrant’? Challenging the Anonymity of Death by Border-Sea
Part 2: (Predominant) Policy Approaches: Securitisation & Criminalisation of Maritime Flows
	5 The Migrant Smuggling Protocol and the Need for a Multi-faceted Approach: Inter-sectionality and Multi-actor Cooperation
	6 Boat Migrants as the Victims of Human Trafficking: Exploring Key Obligations through a Human Rights Based Approach
	7 Transnational Crime and the Rule of Law at Sea: Responses to Maritime Migration and Piracy Compared
Part 3: Main Rights & Main Obligations of States at Sea
	8 Interception of Migrant Boats at Sea
	9 The Duty to Assist Persons in Distress: An Alternative Source of Protection against the Return of Migrants and Asylum Seekers to the High Seas?
	10 Access to Asylum at Sea? Non-refoulement and a Comprehensive Approach to Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations
Part 4: Cross-Regional Perspectives
	11 Responses to ‘Boat Migration’: A Global Perspective – US Practices
	12 The (Un-)sustainability of Australia’s Offshore Processing and Settlement Policy
	13 Leave and Let Die: The EU Banopticon Approach to Migrants at Sea
	14 Into Africa: ‘Boat People’ in Sub-Saharan Africa
Part 5: Key Elements for a Solution: Responsibility & Cooperation
	15 The EU External Borders Policy and Frontex-Coordinated Operations at Sea: Who is in Charge? Reflections on Responsibility for Wrongful Acts
	16 An Examination of the Comprehensive Plan of Action as a Response to Mass Influx of ‘Boat People’: Lessons Learnt for a Comprehensive Approach to Migration by Sea
Conclusion: Closing Remarks: The Present and Future of ‘Boat Refugees’ and Migrants at Sea
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