Abstract
The resurgence of racist rhetoric and policies concerning people fleeing the war in Ukraine serves as a reminder that the ostensible goals of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and 1967 Protocol are regularly eschewed by states making decisions about how to allocate grants of asylum. This Essay makes the claim that racial tiering of protection-seekers demonstrates that states use international refugee law to negotiate their national whiteness contracts and to secure racially hegemonic geopolitical ordering.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2022
Recommended Citation
Marissa Jackson Sow, Ukrainian Refugees, Race, and International Law's Choice Between Order and Justice, 116 Am. J. Int'l L. 698 (2022).
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