Researcher Joshua Blum published a study in the International Journal of Refugee Law at Oxford Academy entitled “When Law Forgets: Coherence and Memory in the Determination of Stateless Palestinian Refugee Claims in Canada”. The study highlighted the incoherence in Canada’s treatment of many Palestinian refugee claims and argues that this state of affairs is best understood as a failure of legal memory. The drafters of the Refugee Convention recognized both Palestinian refugees’ collective entitlement to the protection and the distinct protection needs of stateless persons. However, Canadian refugee law has no trace of this history. As a result, refugee determination in Canada does not account for the persecution that caused and maintains Palestinian statelessness and holds an often-misplaced focus on where a stateless person ‘habitually resided’ at the expense of where they are actually at risk. For further details of the study, click here.