Nikolas Feith Tan

Senior Researcher, Research
PhD
Experts Research
nita@humanrights.dk
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Publications

2022

Tan, N.F., 'Community Sponsorship of Refugees and Local Governance: Towards Protection Principles' in Moritz Baumgärtel and Sara Miellet , Theorizing Local Migration Law and Governance , : Cambridge University Press, 2022, 252-271 (Peer-reviewed).
Cantor, DJ, Tan, NF, Gkliati, M et al, 'Externalisation, Access to Territorial Asylum, and International Law', International Journal of Refugee Law , 34(1), 2022, 120–156 (Non-peer-reviewed).
Tan, N.F, 'Visions of the Realistic? Denmark’s L226 and Extraterritorial Asylum', Nordic Journal of International Law, 91(1), 2022, 172-181 (Peer-reviewed).
Tan, Nik, Petersen, Marie Juul, 'Menneskeretsinstitut om hjemsendte syrere: Myndighederne bryder dansk og international ret', Altinget, 28. november 2022.
Filskov, Nadja, Larsen, Sidsel, Otto, Trine, Tan, Nik, Petersen, Marie Juul, Man kan aldrig føle sig sikker. En analyse af retssikkerhedsmæssige udfordringer, når flygtninge mister deres opholdstilladelse , , 2022 (Non-peer-reviewed).

2021

Tan, N.F., Gammeltoft-Hansen, T., 'Extraterritorial Migration Control and Deterrence' in Cathryn Costello, Michelle Foster and Jane McAdam, Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021 (Peer-reviewed).
Nikolas Feith Tan, 'Community Sponsorship in Europe: Taking Stock, Policy Transfer and What the Future Might Hold', Refugees and Conflict, , 2021 (Peer-reviewed).
Tan, N.F, 'The End of Protection: The Danish Paradigm Shift and the Law of Cessation ', Nordic Journal of International Law, 90(1), 2021, 60-85 (Peer-reviewed).

2020

Tan, N.F., Gammeltoft-Hansen, T., 'A Topographical Approach to Accountability for Human Rights Violations in Migration Control', German Law Journal, 21(1), 2020, 335-354 (Peer-reviewed).
Tan, N.F., 'Community Sponsorship, the Pact and the Compact: Towards Protection Principles, Contribution', ASILE Forum, September 2020.
Nikolas Feith Tan, Daniel Ghezelbash, 'The end of the right to seek asylum?: COVID-19 and the future of refugee protection', Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies , Migration Police Centre, 2020 (Non-peer-reviewed).

2019

Tan, NF and Billing, F, 'Balancing legal obligations in Europe’s cooperation with Libya in the fight against migrant smuggling' in B. Lemann Kristiansen, K. Mitkidis, L. Munkholm, L. Neumann and C. Pelaudeix (eds), Transnationalisation and Legal Actors: Legitimacy in Question, : Routledge, 2019 (Peer-reviewed).
Tan, NF, 'International Models of Deterrence and the Future of Access to Asylum' in S. Juss (ed.), Research Handbook on International Refugee Law, : Edward Elgar, 2019 (Peer-reviewed).
Tan, N. F., The feasibility of community-based sponsorship of refugees in Denmark, Working paper for Amnesty International Denmark, 2019 (Non-peer-reviewed).

2018

Nikolas Feith Tan, 'The Manus Island Regional Processing Centre: A Legal Taxonomy', European Journal of Migration and Law, 20.4, 2018, 427-451 (Peer-reviewed).

2017

F. Mussi, N. F. Tan, 'Comparing cooperation on migration control: Italy–Libya and Australia–Indonesia' in F. de Londras & S. Mullally , Irish Yearbook of International Law, Dublin: Hart, 2017, 87-109 (Peer-reviewed).
Tan, N. F., 'State responsibility and migration control: Australia’s international deterrence model' in Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen & Jens Vedsted-Hansen, Human Rights and the Dark Side of Globalisation Transnational Law Enforcement and Migration Control, : Routledge, 2017, 215-237. (Peer-reviewed).
T. Gammeltoft-Hansen & N.F. Tan, 'The End of the Deterrence Paradigm? Future Directions for Global Refugee Policy', Journal of Migration and Human Security, 5(1), 2017, 28-56 (Peer-reviewed).

2016

Tan, N.F., 'The death of Reza Barati and shared responsibility under international human rights law', The Universal, 1, 2016, 90-107 (Peer-reviewed).
Tan, N. F., 'The Status of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Indonesia', International Journal of Refugee Law, 28(3), 2016, 365-383 (Peer-reviewed).

2015

Tan, N. F., 'Prabowo and the shortcomings of international justice', Griffith Journal of Law & Human Dignity, 1, 2015 (Peer-reviewed).
Tan, N.F., 'State responsibility for international cooperation on migration control: the case of Australia', Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, 5(2), 2015, 8-21 (Non-peer-reviewed).

Key qualifications

International refugee law, asylum, human rights law, international relations

Expertise

My work focuses on refugee law and human rights law as it relates to asylum seekers and refugees. I am interested in research that is timely and policy-relevant at a time when the rights of refugees and obligations of states are under pressure. My PhD dissertation dealt with bilateral cooperation on asylum, including deterrence practices and potential protective solutions. My current work focuses on the law of cessation for refugees and other protection holders; third country solutions, such as resettlement and complementary pathways to asylum; and the role of the UN treaty bodies in protecting asylum seekers and refugee rights.

Selected projects

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