Barbara Harrell-Bond (1932-2018), was Founding Director of the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford> After her retirement, she was Visiting Professor at Makerere University and at the American University in Cairo. In 1996, she received the Distinguished Service Award of the American Anthropological Association. She was author of Imposing Aid (Oxford, 1986).

Foreword
Justice Albie Sachs

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

• The setting
• Main movements of refugees into Kenya and Uganda
• Aims and objectives of the research
• Assumptions underlying the research
• Research methods
• Main findings
• A research and advocacy agenda for the future

Chapter 1. Refugee Law and Policy in Kenya and Uganda

• Introduction
• The Legal Framework in Kenya
• The Legal Framework in Uganda
• Refugee policy in Kenya
• Refugee policy in Uganda
• Refugee law-making in fits and starts
• Conclusion

Chapter 2. Getting In

• Introduction
• The influence of donor countries
• The OAU Convention and group recognition
• Admission: standards and procedures
• Legal hurdles to admission
• Ordeals of arrival
• New arrivals and local people
• Conclusion

Chapter 3. Status-Determination Procedures: '... and when you go to UNHCR, pray'

• Introduction
• Procedural standards in status determination
• Who is in charge?
• The role of NGOs
• Confidentiality
• Interpreters
• Advocacy
• Standards of evidence
• Decisions
• Exclusion
• Cessation
• Conclusion

Chapter 4. Civil and Political Rights

• Introduction
• Non-discrimination
• Right to Life
• Freedom from torture and from cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment
• Freedom from slavery and forced labour
• Liberty and security of the person
• Freedom of movement
• Access to courts and right to fair trial
• Privacy and family life
• Freedom of expression, thought, conscience and religion, and freedom of assembly and association
• Conclusion

Chapter 5. Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights

• Introduction
• Employment
• An adequate standard of living
• The highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
• Education
• Cultural rights
• Conclusion

Chapter 6. Refugee Protection: What Is Going Wrong?

• Introduction
• Host countries
• Donor countries
• Resettlement
• UNHCR
• NGOs
• Conclusion

Conclusions

Bibliography

Index