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26 Fla. J. Int'l L. 531 (2014)
Unable to Return in the 1951 Refugee Convention: Stateless Refugees and Climate Change

handle is hein.journals/fjil26 and id is 551 raw text is: UNABLE TO RETURN IN THE 1951 REFUGEE CONVENTION: STATELESS REFUGEES AND CLIMATE CHANGE Heather Alexander* & Jonathan Simon** I. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................... 532 II. THE ORDINARY MEANING OF 1 (A)(2) ......................................... 538 III. THE OBJECT AND PURPOSE OF I(A)(2) ....................................... 544 A. The Standard Interpretation ................................................ 544 B. The Object and Purpose of the 1951 Convention ................ 547 C. The Subjective Approach and the Drafting History ............. 549 D. Displaced Persons and Refugees Before the 1951 Convention ................................................. 551 E. The Drafting of the 1951 Convention .................................. 552 F. Unable to Return. ............................................................ 556 IV. STATE PRACTICE AND SUBSEQUENT MODIFICATION OF THE 1951 CONVENTION ................................. 562 V . SUBM ERGED STATES ................................................................... 571 V I. C ONCLUSION ............................................................................... 573 A [stateless person] does not need to show a well-founded fear of being persecuted upon his eventual return .... [he] need only substantiate that he is unable to return to the country in question, in order to win recognition as a refugee. - Atle Grahl-MadsenI * Heather Alexander, J.D., Tilburg University. ** Jonathan Simon, Ph.D., Tulane University. 1. ATLE GRAHL-MADSEN, THE STATUS OF REFUGEES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW 261 (A.W. Sijthoff 1966).

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