This book addresses the intersection of various domains of international law (refugee law
human rights law including child rights international law and humanitarian law) in terms of the
implications for State obligations to child refugee asylum seekers in particular both as
collectives and as individual persons. How these State obligations have been interpreted and
translated into practice in different jurisdictions is explored through selected problematic
significant cases. Further various threats to refugee children realizing their asylum rights
including refoulement of these children through State extraterritorial and pushback migration
control strategies are highlighted through selected case law. The argument is made that child
refugee asylum seekers must not be considered in theory or in practice beyond the protection
of the law if the international rule of law grounded on respect for human dignity and human
rights is in fact to prevail.
