Browsing Faculty of Law by Author "Janmyr, Maja"
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Att återvända till fäderneslandet - hur den nubiska drömmen kan bli en rättighet i det nya Egypten
Janmyr, Maja (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-05-23)«These are all my pages; do not tear them up. This is my voice; do not silence it. This is I; do not curse me. For I have lived among you and eaten with you, loved your culture, and still do. I am merely conveying to you, ... -
Attributing Wrongful Conduct of Implementing Partners to UNHCR: International Responsibility and Human Rights Violations in Refugee Camps
Janmyr, Maja (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Refugee camps are often managed by a wide set of actors other than the Host State. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (unhcr), tasked under international law to provide “international protection” to refugees ... -
The Effectiveness of Norway's Readmission Agreements with Iraq and Ethiopia
Janmyr, Maja (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-12-01)This article offers an analysis of the effectiveness of Norway's readmission agreements with Iraq and Ethiopia. Through the use of readmission agreements, Norway aims to reduce irregular presence by increasing the number ... -
Human rights and Nubian mobilisation in Egypt: towards recognition of indigeneity
Janmyr, Maja (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)How are global human rights localised in authoritarian societies? How and what human rights discourses are mobilised by indigenous peoples to further their demands? Building upon original fieldwork among Nubian activists ... -
No Country of Asylum: 'Legitimizing' Lebanon’s Rejection of the 1951 Refugee Convention
Janmyr, Maja (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-10)How do States ‘legitimize’ their non-ratification of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees? This article examines the case of Lebanon, a country ... -
Norway’s Readmission Agreements: Spellbound by European Union Policies or Free Spirits on the International Field?
Janmyr, Maja (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)This article offers an analysis of the objective and substance of Norway’s readmission agreements in light of European Union readmission policies. It explores how readmission policy developments on the EU level also impact ... -
Nubians in Contemporary Egypt: Mobilizing Return to Ancestral Lands
Janmyr, Maja (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Based on original fieldwork, this article examines how Nubians in Egypt have mobilized to demand a return to ancestral lands along the Nile River. It begins with a historically informed analysis explaining how any attempts ... -
Precarity in Exile: The Legal Status of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon
Janmyr, Maja (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-12)Lebanon has had an ambiguous approach to the more than one million Syrians seeking protection in the country since 2011. The country is neither party to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, nor does it ... -
Recruiting Internally Displaced Persons into Civil Militias: The Case of Northern Uganda
Janmyr, Maja (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-08-15)This article explores the state-sanctioned recruitment of internally displaced persons (IDPs) into civil militias in northern Uganda between 1996 and 2006. Drawing upon international and Ugandan domestic law, as well as ... -
UNHCR and the Syrian refugee response: negotiating status and registration in Lebanon
Janmyr, Maja (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)When a host state rejects the international refugee law regime, yet faces an unprecedented number of refugees, how does the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) execute its mandate to provide international ...