Is there still a right to seek asylum in a globalised world? Migration control has increasingly moved to the high seas or the territory of transit and origin countries, and is now commonly outsourced to private actors. Under threat of financial penalties airlines today reject any passenger not in possession of a valid visa, and private contractors are used to run detention centres and man border crossings. In this volume Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen examines the impact of these new practices for refugees` access to asylum. A systematic analysis is provided of the reach and limits of international refugee law when migration control is carried out extraterritorially or by non-state actors. State practice from around the globe and case law from all the major human rights institutions is discussed. The arguments are further linked to wider debates in human rights, general international law and political science.

在一个全球化的世界里，还有寻求庇护的权利吗？移民控制已经越来越多地转移到公海或过境国和原籍国的领土上，现在通常被外包给私人行为者。在经济处罚的威胁下，如今航空公司拒绝任何没有有效签证的乘客，私人承包商被用来管理拘留中心和管理边境口岸。在本卷中，托马斯-加梅尔托夫特-汉森研究了这些新做法对难民获得庇护的影响。本书系统地分析了当移民控制在域外或由非国家行为者进行时，国际难民法的范围和限制。讨论了全球各地的国家实践和所有主要人权机构的案例法。这些论点进一步与人权、一般国际法和政治学中更广泛的辩论联系起来。