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DESCRIPTION:The Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law 
 welcomes Dr. Reuven Ziegler\, who will discuss the precarious status of Er
 itrean and Sudanese nationals in Israel and the regularisation of asylum i
 n Israel.\nRefreshments will be provided. RSVP to oppenheimer [at] mcgill.
 ca.\nAbstract\nThis talk explores the precarious status of Eritrean and Su
 danese nationals in Israel. Having crossed the Israeli-Egyptian border wit
 hout authorisation and not through an official border crossing\, Israeli l
 aw defines such individuals as ‘infiltrators’\, a charged term which dates
  back to border-crossings into Israel by Palestinian Fedayeen in the 1950s
 . Eritreans and Sudanese nationals constitute over 90 percent of ‘infiltra
 tors’ in Israel. Their livelihood is curtailed through hostility\, sanctio
 ns and detention\, while Israel refrains from deporting them to their resp
 ective countries of origin\, recognising that such forced removal could ex
 pose them to risks to their lives and/or freedom. The talk argues that the
  regularisation of asylum in Israel\, including legal recognition of ‘refu
 gee’\, ‘asylum-seeker’\, and ‘beneficiary of subsidiary protection’ status
 es\, is long due.\nAbout the speaker\nDr Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler is lecturer
  in law at the University of Reading School of Law\, where he is a member 
 of the Global Law at Reading (GLAR) research group (specialising in human 
 rights\, international humanitarian law and international refugee law). He
  is Editor-in-Chief\, Working Paper Series\, Refugee Law Initiative (Insti
 tute for Advance Legal Study\, University of London). He is a Research Ass
 ociate of the Refugee Studies Centre\, University of Oxford\, and an Acade
 mic visitor at its Faculty of Law. He is also a researcher at the Israel D
 emocracy Institute (analysing the treatment of African asylum seekers in I
 srael as part of the Constitutional Principles project). Previously\, he w
 as a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School (affiliated with its Immigr
 ation and Refugee Clinic and with the Human Rights Program)\, a Tutor in P
 ublic International Law at the University of Oxford\, and a legal advising
  officer at the Israel Defence Forces' Legal Counselor's Office (mandatory
  military service). He holds DPhil\, MPhil\, and BCL degrees from the Univ
 ersity of Oxford\; LLM with specialisation in Public Law from Hebrew Unive
 rsity\; and a joint LLB and BA from the University of Haifa.\n \n
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LOCATION:NCDH 609\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 36
 44 rue Peel
SUMMARY:No Asylum for ‘Infiltrators’: The Legal Predicament of Eritrean and
  Sudanese Nationals in Israel
URL:/law/channels/event/no-asylum-infiltrators-legal-p
 redicament-eritrean-and-sudanese-nationals-israel-253007
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