The places in which refugees seek sanctuary are often as dangerous and bleak as the conditions they fled. In response, many travel within and across borders in search of safety. As part of these journeys, refugees are increasingly turning to courts to ask for protection, not from persecution in their homeland, but from a place of 'refuge'. This book is the first global and comparative study of 'protection from refuge' litigation, examining whether courts facilitate or hamper refugee journeys with a particular focus on gender. Drawing on jurisprudence from Africa, Europe, North America and Oceania, Kate Ogg shows that courts have transitioned from adopting robust ideas of refuge to rudimentary ones. This trajectory indicates that courts can play a powerful role in creating more just and equitable refugee protection policies, but have, ultimately, compounded the difficulties inherent in finding sanctuary, perpetuating global inequities in refugee responsibility and rendering refuge elusive.

For feminist international law scholars, practitioners, and advocates, the first two decades of the new millennium have produced moments of elation and disenchantment. In the Research Handbook on Feminist Engagement with International Law, a network of scholars and practitioners from a diverse group of countries contemplate the future of feminist engagement with international law. Can international law increase its relevance, beneficence, and impact for women in the developed and developing world? How can international law deal with a much wider range of issues relevant to women's lives than it currently does? What are the next frontiers for gender and international law making, law reform, and the beneficiaries of international law? The diverse global contributions to this Research Handbook delineate a future where feminist engagement with international law is robust, diverse, inclusive, influential, and leads to positive change in women's lives. The Research Handbook addresses larger themes of feminism and international law that will interest international law and gender studies scholars as well as HDR students. Additionally, this exploration will prove to be an asset to UN and INGO networks, regional organizations, and NGOs and social movements. Contributors include: J. Aeberhard-Hodges, S. Airey, M.P. Assis, B. Bennett, K. Chandrakirana, L. Chappell, H. Charlesworth, S.E. Davies, J.J. Dawuni, D. Estrada-Tanck, P. Finckenberg-Broman, G.M. Frisso, V. Fynn Bruey, J. Geng, F. Gerry, B. Goldblatt, R. Grey, M. Hansel, S. Harris Rimmer, R. Houghton, A. Isaac, M. Keyes, E. Larking, R. Maguire, A. O'Donoghue, D. Otto, K. Ogg, J. Ramji-Nogales, K. Rubenstein, S. Samar, G. Simm, N. Tzouvala, K. Woolaston, E. Yahyaoui Krivenko