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Simon Behrman

Warwick University
Verified email at warwick.ac.uk
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[BOOK][B] Climate refugees: beyond the legal impasse?

S Behrman, A Kent - 2018 - books.google.com
Current estimates of the numbers of people who will be forced from their homes as a result
of climate change by the middle of the century range from 50 to 200 million. Therefore, even …

Refugee law as a means of control

S Behrman - Journal of Refugee Studies, 2019 - academic.oup.com
International refugee law has evolved as a means of control over the refugee. The first
principles on which it has been built place the rights of the state above those of the refugee …

Legal subjectivity and the refugee

S Behrman - International Journal of Refugee Law, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The development of international refugee law since 1951 has long been seen as a
necessary and positive thing for refugees. Without legal rights, so it is argued, the refugee is …

[BOOK][B] Law and asylum: space, subject, resistance

S Behrman - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
In contrast to the claim that refugee law has been a key in guaranteeing a space of
protection for refugees, this book argues that law has been instrumental in eliminating …

[PDF][PDF] The Teitiota Case and the limitations of the human rights framework

S Behrman, A Kent - Questions of International Law, 2020 - ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk
The decision of the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) in Teitiota v New Zealand has been
widely hailed as heralding a major development in the jurisprudence on 'climate refugees'. 1 …

[BOOK][B] Climate Refugees

S Behrman, A Kent - 2022 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Climate change is often defined as a 'super-wicked'problem; one 'that defies resolution
because of the enormous interdependencies, uncertainties, circularities, and conflicting …

Accidents, agency and asylum: Constructing the refugee subject

S Behrman - Law and Critique, 2014 - Springer
Refugee law demands that the asylum seeker demonstrate an extremely limited and
distorted form of agency that is encapsulated within the legal definition of the refugee. Such …

Migraine as a sequela of blunt head injury

S Behrman - Injury, 1977 - Elsevier
Evidence that a blunt head injury can engender a migrainous state in susceptible individuals
is provided by a series of 13 patients who developed recurring attacks of classic migraine …

Retinal vein obstruction

S Behrman - The British journal of ophthalmology, 1962 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
AT the root of the clinical phenomena to be described, lies a singular haemodynamic
arrangement to befound in the central retinal vein. Within a space of a. few millimetres, the …

Mutism induced by phenothiazines

S Behrman - The British Journal of Psychiatry, 1972 - cambridge.org
The purpose of this communication is to present a group of patients who, while receiving
treatment with one of the phenothiazine derivatives in average range of doses regarded as …