Keywords:
Access to Asylum
Rightlessness
International Refugee Law
Externalization
The Right to Asylum
Adel-Naim Reyhani's research aims to understand the position of refugees in a state-based world order, from the perspectives of international refugee law and political theory. Currently, he is investigating the role of courts in determining refugees' access to asylum.
Moreover, the focus of his research has lied on the conceptual foundations of international refugee law, Hannah Arendt's theory of refugeehood, the externalisation of migration control, the right to asylum and access to asylum, the right to private and family life, the safe third country concept and the Dublin system, detention and alternatives to detention, and trafficking in the asylum context. Amongst others, his research has generated insights into the rightlessness of refugees in Libya, indicating the need to move beyond state-bound conceptions of jurisdiction. In addition, he has explored the inability of the ECtHR's practice in expulsion cases to capture the contribution of refugees to host communities, outlining a reconstructive path for addressing this flaw.
