Efrat Arbel is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia. She works in the areas of constitutional law, refugee law, Aboriginal law, and prison law, in Canada and the United States. Catherine Dauvergne is Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia. She works in the areas of immigration and refugee laws, in Canada and around the world. Jenni Millbank is Professor of Law at University of Technology, Sydney. Her socio-legal scholarship is broadly concerned with gender and sexuality and takes place across a number of sites including: family, relationship, reproduction and refugee law.
Overall, due to its inter-disciplinarity, Gender in Refugee Law is very accessible to a diverse readership. As the book discusses past developments as well as the current state of gender in refugee law, it is very informative for people new to, as well as those already familiar with, the topic . - Hannah Baumeister, Aberystwyth University for International Journal of Refugee Law (2014, Vol. 26, No. 4, 716-729) In order to dissolve the aforementioned dichotomy underlying the mainstream discourse about refugees, the 'refugee producing countries' must be given a voice in future studies, academic publications and advocacy situations. Gender in Refugee Law constitutes a milestone in this process, as it paves the way to further advances in refugee law - such as a study examining on the one hand how refugees find out about the asylum claim process, and on the other how governments and society view refugees (pp. 171-2). For this reason, scholars in anthropology and other social sciences, whose work is critical in the investigation of this issue, would find this book of particular interest in their endeavours. It not only shows how gender has been pushed from the centre to the margins of refugee law, but more importantly, it successfully proves the urgency of bringing it back to its former place. - Gabriela Radulescu, Allegra Lab: Anthropology, Law, Art & World