ABSTRACT
This chapter engages with international protection as defined in EU asylum law and its tenets in primary and secondary EU law provisions, including the Qualification Regulation. It outlines the relevant jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights in subjecta materia, which has shaped the contours of, and provided crucial insights into, the interpretation of the definition and scope of international protection. It then proceeds by contextualizing the “dominant” view of refugee law, which considers disaster displacement as hardly fitting within international protection standards. It provides concrete examples stemming from the literature, policy documents, and case law at the European and domestic levels where the applicability of international protection was excluded in the case of disaster displacement in light of an incongruent approach to asylum norms.
