Prompted by the fiftieth anniversary of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, this volume collects essays by scholars from a wide range of disciplines, NGO staff, international organization professionals, and national-level policy makers. The contributors examine the impact of this legal document on forced migrants, the states they migrate from and to, and the societies they join and leave behind.

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Opening Keynote Address: The Refugee Convention at Fifty Chapter 3 Global Solidarity: A Report of a Plenary Session Chapter 4 Regional Approaches to Forced Migration Chapter 5 The Refugee Convention Applied-Moral, Medical, Ethical, and Judicial Questions and Limitations Chapter 6 Refugees: Whose Term is it Anyway?:Emic and Etic Constructions of Refugees in Modern Greek Chapter 7 Insisting on the Jus Cogens Nature ofNon-Refoulement Chapter 8 Turkey, UNHCR, and the 1951 Convention on Status of Refugees: Problems and Prospects of Cooperation Chapter 9 Whither the Accountability Theory: Second-Class Status for Third-Party Refugees as a Threat to International Refugee Protection Chapter 10 The Geneva Convention and the European Union: A Fraught Relationship Chapter 11 Roma Asylum Applicants in the U.K.: "Scroungers" or "Scapegoats"? Chapter 12 Human Smuggling and Refugee Protection in the European Union: Myths and Realities Chapter 13 The Fight Against Migrant Smuggling: Migration Containment over Refugee Protection Chapter 14 Medical Anthropology in the Service of Forcefully Migrating Populations: Current Boundaries, Future Horizons, and Possible Delusions Chapter 15 The Refugee Convention and Practice in South Asia: A Marriage of Inconvenience? Chapter 16 Closing Keynote Address

Joanne van Selm is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.