Launch: ‘Borderline Justice: the fight for refugee and migrant rights by Frances Webber’ – 14 November, Dublin

'Borderline Justice' describes how the law has been deployed, developed, used and abused, stretched and strained over the past thirty years for use against migrants and asylum seekers – but also how it has been used to resist executive abuses of power, exclusion and injustice, whether by reference to common-law precepts of fairness, the ‘law of common humanity’ or human rights law. It records some of the key legal struggles which have sought to preserve values of universality in human rights - and the importance of continuing to fight for those values, inside and outside the courtroom.

 

Time: 19.00 PM

 

Date: 14 November 2012

 

Venue: Jonathon Swift Theatre, Arts Block, Trinity College, Dublin.

 

Presentation and discussion with author Frances Webber; Siobhan O’Donoghue, MRCI and Sue Conlan, Irish Refugee Council.

 

This is a  joint event hosted by Puto Press, The Irish Refugee Council, MRCI and TCD Department of Sociology.