Michael Kagan

Publications

Book Contributions

Samira Trad & Michael Kagan, Rights, Needs and Responsibility: Challenges to Rights-Based Advocacy for Non-Palestinian Refugees' Health and Education in Lebanon, in Forced Displacement: Why Rights Matter? 159 (Lyla Mehta & Kasia Grabska eds., Palgrave Press 2008).

Michael Kagan, Politically-Preferred Solutions and Refugee Choices: Applying the Lessons of Iraq to Palestine, in Palestinian Refugee Repatriation: Global Perspectives 250 (Michael Dumper ed., Routledge Press 2006).

Articles

Michael Kagan, The U.S. “Surrogate State” and the Foundation of Refuge Policy in the Middle East,”  U.C. Davis J. of Int’l L. & Pol’y (2013).    

Michael Kagan, Refugee Credibility Assessment and the “Religious Imposter” Problem, 43 Vand. J. Transnat’l L. 1179 (2010).

Michael Kagan, Is There Really a Protection Gap? UNRWA’s Role vis-á-vis Palestinian Refugees, 28 Refugee Surv. Q. 511 (2009).

Michael Kagan, The (Relative) Decline of Palestinian Exceptionalism and its Consequences for Refugee Studies in the Middle East, 22 J. Refugee Stud. 417 (2009).

Michael Kagan, Restitution as a Remedy for Refugee Property Claims in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 19 Fla. J. Int’l L. 421 (2007).

Michael Kagan, Destructive Ambiguity: Enemy Nationals and the Legal Enabling of Ethnic Conflict in the Middle East, 38 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 263 (2007).

Michael Kagan, Legal Refugee Recognition in the Urban South: Formal v. de Facto Refugee Status, 24 Refuge, no. 1, 2007 at 11.

Michael Kagan, Frontier Justice: Legal Aid and UNHCR Refugee Status Determination in Egypt, 19 J. Refugee Stud. 45 (2006).

Michael Kagan, The Beleaguered Gatekeeper: Protection Challenges Posed by UNHCR Refugee Status Determination, 18 Int’l J. Refugee L. 1 (2006).

Michael Kagan, Is Truth in the Eye of the Beholder? Objective Credibility Assessment in Refugee Status Determination, 17 Geo. Immigr. L.J. 367 (2003).

Michael Kagan & William P. Johnson, Persecution in the Fog of War: The House of Lords’ Decision in Adan, 23 Mich. J. Int’l L. 247 (2002).

Commentaries, Essays, and Reviews

Michael Kagan, We Live in a Country of UNHCR: The UN Surrogate State and Refugee Policy in the Middle East (The UN Refugee Agency: Policy Development & Evaluation Serv., Research Paper No. 201, 2011).

Michael Kagan, Shared Responsibility in a New Egypt: A Strategy for Refugee Protection (Sept. 2011) (The American Univ. in Cairo: School of Global Affairs and Public Policy).

Michael Kagan & Anat Ben-Dor, Nowhere to Run: Gay Palestinian Asylum-Seekers in Israel (Tel Aviv Univ. Pub. Interest Law Program 2008).

Michael Kagan, Refugees and Obama’s American Values, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Dec. 9, 2008.

Michael Kagan, UN Reform for the Rest of Us: An Agenda for Grassroots Accountability, Foreign Pol’y Focus, Apr. 13, 2006.

Michael Kagan, Setting Standards of Ethics, Competence and Accountability for Legal Aid in the Context of UNHCR RSD (Asylum Access, Working Paper, 2006).

Michael Kagan, Do Israeli Rights Conflict with the Palestinian Right of Return? Identifying the Possible Legal Arguments (BADIL Res. Ctr. for Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights, Working Paper No. 10, 2005).

Michael Kagan, Falling Through the Cracks: Legal and Practical Gaps in Palestinian Refugee Status – A Case Study of Unrecognized Refugees in Lebanon (Legal Consultant on report by Frontiers Ass’n 2005).

Michael Kagan, Israel Tries to Tighten Immigration by Following Europe, Al Majdal, Autumn 2005, at 37.

Emily Arnold-Fernandez & Michael Kagan, UN Decision-Making on Refugee Status: Implications for American Asylum Policy, Immigr. Naturalization Committee Newsl., Summer 2005, at 5.

Michael Kagan, The Missing Third Leg of UN Accountability, Foreign Pol’y Focus, June 23, 2005.

Michael Kagan, At the UN, Palestinian Democracy Tests American and Israeli Limits, Electronic Intifada, May 25, 2005.

Michael Kagan, Book Review, 18 J. Refugee Stud. 241 (2005) (reviewing Guglielmo Verdirame & Barbara Harrell-Bond (with Zachary Lomo & Hannah Garry), Rights in Exile: Janus-Faced Humanitarianism (2005)).

Michael Kagan, Stop Subsidizing Occupation, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Jan. 24, 2005.

Barbara Harrell-Bond & Michael Kagan, Protecting the Rights of Refugees in Africa: Beginning with the UN Gatekeeper, Pambazuka News, Nov. 11, 2004, at 182.

Michael Kagan, Building Lives on the Edge of War: Sudanese Refugees in Northern Uganda Struggle in Limbo, Next Am. City, July 2004, at 28.

Bashir Osmat, Michael Kagan & Samira Trad, Promises Without Solutions: Iraqi Refugees Left in the Lurch in Lebanon, 18 Forced Migration Rev. 42 (2003).

Michael Kagan, Assessment of Refugee Status Determination Procedure at UNHCR’s Cairo Office 2001-2002 (Am. Univ. in Cairo: Forced Migration & Refugee Studies, Working Paper No. 1, 2002).

Encyclopedia Entries

Michael Kagan, Darfur, in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (2nd ed., MacMillan Reference 2008).

Michael Kagan on the Scholarly Commons