James C. Simeon

Institution: McLaughlin College, School of Public Policy and Administration, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Period of stay: 9 January - 28 June 2024

Contact: jcsimeon@yorku.ca

Profile:

Dr. James C. Simeon is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA), Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, and a former Head of McLaughlin College, Director of the SPPA, and a former Acting Director and Deputy Director at the Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS), at York University, Toronto, Canada.

Prior to joining the faculty at York University, James served as the first Executive Director of the International Association of Refugee Law Judges (IARLJ), now the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges (IARMJ). He is currently an Associate Member of the IARMJ and serves as the Coordinator of its Inter-Conference Working Party Process. He is also one of the founding members of the IARMJ America Chapter. He is a past President of the Canadian Association for Refugees and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS), a member of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) and the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC).
James served on the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB) as a Member and Coordinating Member from September 1994 to October 2005. While a Member and Coordinating Member of the IRB he sat on a number of high profile cases, including, Pushpanathan, an exclusion case under Article 1F of the 1951 Convention that had been argued at the Supreme Court of Canada.

Research Area:

International Refugee Law, International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law

Research Title:

War, Terrorism, and Asylum

Research Outline:

The research for this book project will proceed in the following manner. First, there will be a thorough examination and analysis of modern warfare in the 21st Century and how it incorporates the core international crimes: the crime of aggression; war crimes; crimes against humanity; and genocide. This will be followed by a thorough examination and analysis of the phenomenon of terrorism and how it is employed to generate mass forced displacement. The book will then proceed to consider the direct relationships between the triple nexus of war, terrorism and asylum. The legal and jurisprudential analysis of these three subjects will be centered on three branches of international law: international humanitarian law; international criminal law; and international refugee law. The book will conclude by outlining and considering the most fruitful international legal developments and their implications for addressing the escalating challenge of ever-increasing refugee flows that are contingent on wars and mass forced displacement that is accelerated by terrorism.

Publications:

Serious International Crimes, Human Rights, and Forced Migration, New York: Routledge, 2022. https://www.routledge.com/Serious-International-Crimes-Human-Rights-and-.... (412 pages) (accessed February 11, 2022)
 
Terrorism and Asylum. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Nijhoff, 2020. https://brill.com/view/title/54510. (424 pages) (accessed October 3, 2020)

“War and Asylum,” Special Issue, co-edited with Sorpong Peou, Frontiers in Human Dynamics and Frontiers in Political Science, in progress, see https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/40647/war-and-asylum.

“The Use and Abuse of Forced Migration and Displacement as a Weapon of War,” Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 6 July 2023, 5:1172954. doi: 10.3389/fhumd.2023.1172954. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fhumd.2023.1172954/full?&ut.... (accessed July 6, 2023)
 
“Ending Exclusion for Refugee Protection and Advancing International Justice,” with Commentary by Dr. Joseph Rikhof, Laws 2022, 11(4), 61; https://doi.org/10.3390/laws11040061 (registering DOI),
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-471X/11/4/61/htm. (accessed August 8, 2022)

“The Evolving Common Law Jurisprudence Combatting the Threat of Terrorism in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada,” Laws, 2019, 8(1), 5, (pp. 1-43) https://www.mdpi.com/2075-471X/8/1/5.  

“Realizing the Human Right to Peace,” Peace Magazine, April – June 2023, pp. 18-21.
file:///C:/Users/jcsimeon/Documents/PUBLICATIONS/Peace%20Magazine/Peace-Magazine-Spring2023-lowres.pdf. (accessed May 4, 2023) [copy and paste the URL in your browser.]

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