Jenny Poon is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Western Ontario, a qualified Barrister & Solicitor in Ontario, Canada, as well as a Visiting Study Fellow at the University of Oxford, Refugee Studies Centre for Trinity Term 2017. Jenny’s research focuses on examining the principle of non-refoulement as a norm in international and European law and a comparative analysis of the United Kingdom and Germany.
Non-Refoulement Obligations in Offshore Detention Facilities
How the removal of a refugee to an offshore detention facility may be an international wrongful act Offshore processing of asylum applications has become the new norm. One needs to…