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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"1951 Refugee Convention"”.
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From Persecution to Detention: A reflection on the non-application of Article 31(1) of the 1951 Refugee Convention on asylum seekers in Zambia
… referred to as the Immigration Act) and the Refugees Act No. 1 of 2017 (hereinafter the Refugees Act). Although these two pieces of legislation apply to different types of migrants, there is a predisposition on the part of the authorities of enforcing immigration laws and not refugee laws on …
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Temporary Refuge as a Response to Large - Scale Refugee Influxes
… of temporary refuge in relation to large-scale refugee influxes. It combines contextual and legal analyses and examines the topic lex lata. It presents a unique insight into the topic by critically considering some conventional assumptions in the field, and represents one of the few academic …
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Dealt with on their merits? : the treatment of asylum seekers in the UK and France
… persecution (they are all signatories to the 1951 Refugee Convention) and, on the other, the increasingly restrictive policies on asylum adopted by those same states. In order to understand asylum-seeker perspectives I interviewed asylum seekers in the UK, though not in France due to my …
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Beyond the Threshold of Protection: Examining Non-Refoulement's Erosion in Contemporary Refugee Law through the EU-Turkey Agreement
… of non-refoulement as established in the 1951 Refugee Convention. While this fundamental principle of international refugee law prohibits the return of individuals to countries where they face persecution, torture, or human rights violations, its widespread violation by state parties …
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Acculturative Stress, Coping, and Approaches to Working with Refugee Immigrants in the United States
… are forced to leave their homes and many become refugees. Based on the U.S. Refugee Act of 1980, the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 protocol, some of those who fall into the legal definition of refugees get the chance to be resettled in the United States. During the course of migration, …
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From protection to persecution: exploring the impact of anti-foreigner mobilisation on refugee rights in South Africa
… mobilisation impedes the rights and lives of refugees in South Africa. This study does this by highlighting the anti-foreigner mobilisation movement, Operation Dudula. Grounded in a qualitative desk review, the study examines the systemic, social and economic impacts of xenophobia on the …
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The failure of the European Union to offer adequate protection to refugee women
The majority of refugee and migrant women who are travelling to Europe to seek asylum in the European Union are coming from war-torn countries in order to seek asylum from war or gender-based violence. This is due to the fact that women and children are often targets during war. They may be victims …
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A 'harvest' in Malawi: the position of albinism in Refugee Law
… of the small population. The definition of a refugee under the 1951 Refugee Convention on the other hand, only provides for five grounds of persecution which includes race, religion, nationality, political opinion and membership of a particular social group. The dissertation seeks to unravel …
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The Human Rights Of Syrian Refugee Women: A Comparative Analysis Of Healthcare Access And Educational Opportunities In Turkey And Greece [before doctoral defense]
… and children together represent 75% of Syrian refugees (Samari, 2017). Yet their specific protection needs remain systematically unmet despite decades of international commitments to gender-responsive refugee protection. This dissertation investigates the implementation gaps between formal …
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The political origins and development of Australia’s people smuggling legislation: Evil smugglers or extreme rhetoric?
… as formulated by the United Nations is its 1951 Refugee Convention. Within the Australian context these are framed as the “rights of unauthorised arrivals”. By examining de-classified Fraser government documents, the thesis presents evidence of the State’s intent to criminalise ‘people …
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The Politics of Security: Syrian Refugees in the Middle East and Western Europe
… governments view and respond to the arrival of refugees primarily as a security threat? Comparatively analyzing the securitization of Syrian refugees in two pairs of countries, Turkey and Lebanon and Germany and France, this dissertation proposes a domestic political context-based theory and …