Chinese Refugee Law and Policy, 1949-2017: A Door Behind the Bamboo Curtain?

This book is the first to systematically examine Chinese refugee law and policy. It provides in-depth legal and policy analysis and makes recommendations to relevant stakeholders, drawing upon not only existing legal and policy scholarships but also empirical information acquired through field visits and interviews with refugees, former refugees, and staff of governmental and non-governmental organisations working with displaced population. It is a timely response to rapidly growing international interest in and demand for information about Chinese and Asian approaches to refugee protection in academia and the policy sector.

• Systematically examines Chinese refugee law and policy to help readers to gain a deeper understanding of in-depth critical legal and policy analyses
• Draws from empirical information acquired through field visits and interviews with refugees, former refugees, and staff of governmental and non-governmental organisations working with displaced populations
• Through comparison of China, Hong Kong and Macao, readers will gain a better sense of factors that shape refugee law and policy in these jurisdictions