Individual research staff members engage in the writing of articles and case notes for peer reviewed journals.  A full list of articles and publications authored and co-authored by members of the Refugee Rights Unit team is listed below.

Publications

Fatima Khan ‘Challenging the notion of Temporary Protection as a viable Complementary Pathway to Protection: The case of the Special Zimbabwean Dispensation’ in Carrera Nunez, S., Karageorgiou, E., Ovacik, G., Tan, N.F. (eds) Global Asylum Governance and the European Union's Role (2025) 133-147. Available at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-74866-0_8.

Sky Kruger ‘People Forced to Flee: History, Change and Challenge, Ninette Kelley: Review’ (2025) 141(4) South African Law Journal 839-846. https://doi.org/10.47348/SAL.

Fatima Khan ‘South Africa’s dalliance with temporary protection of refugees - is it a form of ‘sophisticated containment’ or a humanitarian act?’ in Jane Freedman & Glenda Santana de Andrade (eds) Research Handbook on Asylum and Refugee Policy (2024) 188-203. Available at https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802204599.

Sergio Carrera, Fatima Khan, Andrew Fallone, Natália Medina Araújo and İlke Şanlıer Yüksel ‘Asylum Governance Instruments in Canada, Brazil, South Africa and Turkey: Status Determination, Structural Vulnerability and the Right to Work’ (2023) Centre for European Policy Studies, ASILE. Available at https://www.ceps.eu/ceps-publications/asylum-governance-instruments-in-canada-brazil-south-africa-and-turkey/.

Fatima Khan ‘An Overview of the Teaching of Refugee Law at the University of Cape Town, Law Faculty’ in Richard Grimes, Věra Honuskova & Ulrich Stege (eds) Teaching Migration and Asylum Law: Theory and Practice (2022) 68-74. Available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003167617.

Fatima Khan ‘Challenging the administrative detention of stateless persons in South Africa’ (2022) 8(3) African Human Mobility Review 129.

Fatima Khan & Mikhail Kolabhai ‘Bureaucratic Barriers to Social Protection for Refugees and Asylum Seekers during the COVID-19 Disaster in South Africa’ (2021) 7(2) African Human Mobility Review 74. Available at https://doi.org/10.14426/ahmr.v7i2.922.

Fatima Khan & Nandi Rayner ‘A historical overview of forcibly displaced persons in Southern Africa (2011- 2020): Realising the Expectations of the Global Compact on Refugees’ (2021) Reference Paper for the 70th Anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention.

Fatima Khan ‘States and the Refugee Convention: Circumventing, but not Blatantly Disregarding’ (2021) Keynote Speaker, London University 5th Annual Conference of the Refugee Law Initiative, ‘Ageing Gracefully? The 1951 Refugee Convention at 70 Years.’ Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yRtRL9Bjh8.

Fatima Khan & Cecile Sackeyfio ‘Situating the Global Compact for Refugees in Africa: Will it make a difference in the lives of refugees “languishing in camps”?’ (2021) 65 (S1) Journal of African Law 1–23. Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021855321000012.

Fatima Khan & Ncumisa Willie ‘Strengthening access to justice for women refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa’ in David Lawson, Adam Dubin and Lea Mwambene (eds.) Gender, Poverty and Access to Justice: Policy Implementation in Sub-Saharan Africa ed 2020. Routledge.

Fatima Khan ‘Does the right to dignity extend equally to refugees in South Africa?’ (2020) 20 African Human Rights Law Journal 261–284. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1996-2096/2020/v20n1a10.

Fatima Khan ‘Is childhood statelessness an issue in South Africa?’ (2020) 23 Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal 1–34. Available at https://doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2020/v23i0a6414.

Fatima Khan ‘Is voluntary repatriation the preferred durable solution? The view of refugees in South Africa’ (2020) 6 (2) African Human Mobility Review 81–103. Available at https://sihma.org.za/journal/ahmr-volume-6-number-2-may-august-2020-1.

Fatima Khan, Cecile Sackeyfio & Liliya Paraketsova ‘Refugee women as victims of intimate partner violence: forever vulnerable?’ in Nolundi Luwaya, Rashida Manjoo and Jameelah Omar (eds) Violence Against Women: Law, Policy and Practice ed (2020) 227–267. Cape Town: Juta & Company. Available online at https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/EJC-1fa72f5995.

Fatima Khan, Charlotte Marias & Siphokazi Mbatani ‘Refugee processes in South Africa require an “an injection of humanity”’ (2020) 56 (1) Journal of Asian and African Studies 48–63. Available at https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0021909620946850

Fatima Khan & Nandi Rayner ‘Migration management: the antithesis of refugee protection – the case of South Africa’ (2020) for the Forum on the new European Union Pact on Migration and Asylum in light of the United Nations Global Compact on Refugees. Available at https://www.asileproject.eu/migration-management-the-antithesis-of-refugee-protection-the-case-of-south-africa/. Also forthcoming in an e-book in 2021.

Fatima Khan & Ruvi Ziegler ‘Refugee naturalization and integration’ in Costello, Foster & McAdam (eds.) Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law ed 2020. Oxford University Press.

Fatima Khan ‘Has South Africa committed in good faith to article 34 of the UN Refugee Convention, which calls for the naturalisation of refugees?’ (2019) 23 Law, Democracy and Development 68–99. Available at http://ref.scielo.org/zkjj7y.

Fatima Khan ‘In chronic exile: rethinking the legal regime for refuges in protracted refugee situation’ (2019) 30 (2) Stellenbosch Law Review 186–211. Available at https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/EJC-182f64224f.

Fatima Khan ‘Public Interest Litigation in South Africa, Jason Brickhill (Ed.): Review’ (2019) 136 (1) South African Law Journal 199–203. Available at https://journals.co.za/doi/10.10520/EJC-146d297a66.

Fatima Khan & Cecile Sackeyfio ‘What promise does the global compact on refugees hold for African refugees?’ (2018) 30 (4) International Journal of Refugee Law 696–698. Available at https://doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eez002.

Fatima Khan & Megan Lee ‘Policy shifts in the asylum process in South Africa resulting in hidden refugees and asylum seekers’ (2018) 4 (2) African Human Mobility Review 1205–1225. Available at https://www.sihma.org.za/journals/AHMR-Vol-42-Final-press.pdf.

Justin de Jager ‘The right of asylum seekers and refugees in South Africa to self-employment: a comment on Somali Association of South Africa v Limpopo Department of Economic Development, Environment and Tourism’ (2017) 31 (2) SAJHR 401–409. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/19962126.2015.11865253.

Ncumisa Willie & Popo Mfubu ‘No future for our children: challenges faced by foreign minors living in South Africa’ (2016) 2 (1) African Human Mobility Review 423–442. Available at: https://www.sihma.org.za/journals/AHMR-Vol-2-No-1-Jan-April-2016.pdf.

Ncumisa Willie & Popo Mfubu ‘Responsibility sharing: towards a unified refugee protection framework in Africa’ (2016) 2 (3) African Human Mobility Review 542–566. Available at: https://sihma.org.za/journals/AHMR-Vol-2-No-3-Sep-Dec-2016.pdf.

Fatima Khan ‘Reunification of the refugee family in South Africa: a legal right?’ (2013) 28 (2) Refuge 77–92. Available at: https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.36481.

Tal Schreier ‘Critical challenges to protecting unaccompanied and separated foreign children in the Western Cape: lessons learned at the University of Cape Town Refugee Rights Unit’ (2011) 28 (2) Refuge 61–75. Available at: https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.36480.

Justin de Jager ‘Addressing xenophobia in the Equality Courts of South Africa’ (2011) 28 (2) Refuge 107–116. Available at: https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.36486.

Fatima Khan ‘Interpreting for refugees: “Where practicable and necessary only?”’ (2011) 28 (2) Refuge 93–105. Available at: https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.36482.

Tal Schreier ‘An evaluation of South Africa’s application of the OAU refugee definition’ (2008) 25 (2) Refuge 53–63. Available at: https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.36480.

 From Refugee Law in South Africa (2023) 2^nd ed Fatima Khan & Tal Schreier (eds)

Fatima Khan ‘The evolution of refugee law in South Africa’ in Fatima Khan & Tal Schreier (eds) Refugee Law in South Africa 2 ed (2023) 1-13.

Fatima Khan ‘The principle of non-refoulement’ in Fatima Khan & Tal Schreier (eds) Refugee Law in South Africa 2 ed (2023) 14-34.

Fatima Khan ‘’Outside the Country of Nationality’: a territorial limitation’ in Fatima Khan & Tal Schreier (eds) Refugee Law in South Africa 2 ed (2023) 35-50.

Fatima Khan & Mikhail Kolabhai ‘Well-founded fear’ in Fatima Khan & Tal Schreier (eds) Refugee Law in South Africa 2 ed (2023) 51-64.

Fatima Khan & Justin de Jager ‘Persecution: acts, agents and grounds’ in Fatima Khan & Tal Schreier (eds) Refugee Law in South Africa 2 ed (2023) 65-91.

Justin de Jager & Fatima Khan ‘Refugee status determination in South Africa’ in Fatima Khan & Tal Schreier (eds) Refugee Law in South Africa 2 ed (2023) 197-214.

Daven Dass, Jonathan Klaaren, Kaajal Ramjathan-Keogh & Fatima Khan ‘The civil and political rights of refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa’ in Fatima Khan & Tal Schreier (eds) Refugee Law in South Africa 2 ed (2023) 249-267.

Daven Dass, Kaaja; Ramjathan-Keogh, Fatima Khan & Nandi Rayner ‘The socio-economic rights of refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa’ in Fatima Khan & Tal Schreier (eds) Refugee Law in South Africa 2 ed (2023) 271-289.

From Immigration Law in South Africa (2018) Fatima Khan (ed.)

Fatima Khan & Sally Hurt ‘Temporary residence’ in Fatima Khan (ed) Immigration Law in South Africa 1 ed (2018) 93–112.

Fatima Khan ‘Citizenship in South Africa’ in Fatima Khan (ed) Immigration Law in South Africa 1 ed (2018) 129–148.

Fatima Khan ‘Permanent residence’ in Fatima Khan (ed) Immigration Law in South Africa 1 ed (2018) 113–128.

Fatima Khan, Kiegen Louw & Ncumisa Willie ‘The securitisation of migration — South Africa’ in Fatima Khan (ed) Immigration Law in South Africa 1 ed (2018) 74–89.

James Chapman ‘The effect of the law of domicile on the migrant’ in Fatima Khan (ed) Immigration Law in South Africa 1 ed (2018) 149–163.

Nathanael Mauritz ‘Admission and departure procedures’ in Fatima Khan (ed) Immigration Law in South Africa 1 ed (2018) 164–177.

Popo Mfubu ‘Prohibited and undesirable persons’ in Fatima Khan (ed) Immigration Law in South Africa 1 ed (2018) 178–191.