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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Status of refugees"”.
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Does the 1951 UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees adequately protect refugess from refoulement?
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International criminal law and refugee protection: The interplay between international criminal law and Article 1F(A) of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees is the centre piece of international refugee protection. It consolidates previous refugee instruments thereby providing a comprehensive codification of refugee rights internationally. Whilst assuring basic civil and social rights to millions of …
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Gender Identity, Refugeehood, and Belonging: Transgender Asylum-Seekers and International Refugee Status Determination (RSD)
… with transgender asylum-seekers and refugee status determination (RSD). It considers the excessively complex legal developments and discourse surrounding gender-related asylum applications and challenges the strict interpretation of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and …
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Tracking the evolution of the norm of refugee protection
The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees not only, it is argued in this paper, established the international refugee regime with a strong relation to human rights, but also laid the groundwork for the establishment of a norm of refugee protection as a standard of appropriate behaviour …
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Centring stigmatised underserved groups and limiting State competence to counter structural violence:: (Im)permissibility in International Law and South African Law of arrest and detention of undocumented asylum seekers during the asylum application process
… the competence to regulate the entry and stay of asylum seekers in the country, and to introduce measures of arrest and detention in asylum applications. It enacted the Refugees Act in 1998, which gave effect to its international law obligations in terms of the three specific international and …
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Uganda's state responsibility under international law to safeguard refugee children's right to access education
… third in the world with more than 1.25 million refugees as of June 2017. The majority of refugees there are children. Uganda's refugee regime and hospitality date back to the days of World War II, prior to the country's independence, when it hosted refugees from European countries. Since then, …
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The importance of administrative justice rights in international refugee law: a case study of South Africa
… regarding the procedure for processing refugees by an individual state. However, they do provide an extensive set of rights, and it is these rights that form the focus of this study. One of the main principles of international law is to protect human rights and human dignity. In the …
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Terrorism, securitization of the nation and refugee flows: Implications of policies and practices in a post-911 era
This Master's thesis examines the impact of the events of 9/11 on the discourses and practices that attempt to regulate the flow of refugee populations in Canada. Discourse analytical techniques are used to analyse a corpus of official documents that have contributed to the reframing of the status …
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Is the European Union (EU) a normative power?: an in-depth look at its actions and policies on refugees, asylum seekers and forced migrants
<p>This paper examines the legality of the actions of the European Union with regards to their treatment of refugees and the legitimacy of the subsequent policies when tested against prevailing human rights norms and established international law on the rights of refugees, asylum seekers and the …
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Muslim Brothers or Overstaying Guests? The Reception of Syrian Refugees in Southeastern Turkey
… Syrian refugee issue in Turkey with an analysis of history and political discourse, and data drawn from a fieldwork conducted in Şanlıurfa, Turkey in 2015. The Islamist ruling party has staged a warm welcome for Syrian refugees. Their refugee regime, however, has remained weak in regards to law …
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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
Despite Zambia's ratification of several of international and regional human rights instruments, the country's domestic legislation frustrates its international obligations in so far as protection of asylum seekers human rights is concerned. Principally there are two main pieces of legislation …
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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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Accounting for Gender in International Refugee Law: A Close Reading of the UNHCR Gender Guidelines and the Discursive Construction of Gender as an Identity
<p>This thesis conducts a close reading of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ “Guidelines on International Protection: Gender-Related Persecution within the context of Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention and/or its 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees” – a document that …
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How to Address the Inadequacies in the Protection of Transgender Female Refugees in Countries of Refuge?
… the unique struggles faced by transgender female refugees in countries of refuge has remained silent. Although existing as places of refuge, host states have remained particularly hostile to these refugees. The term ‘transgender’ is still relatively new and this thesis aims to outline the plight …
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Protection of the right of asylum-seeking children not to be unlawfully detained: a look into the laws of Botswana
Botswana acceded to the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol and entered a reservation on section 26 relating to the freedom of movement of refugees within its borders justified on reasons of national security. As such, Botswana adopts a restrictive detention policy which …
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South Africa’s diplomatic strategy on migrants, with specific reference to the United Nations refugee regime, 1994-2009
South Africa is seen as a major destination for refugees and asylum-seekers and is, according to the 2010 Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the world’s highest destination country for asylum-seekers, mainly from Sub-Saharan Africa. Following the 1994 democratic elections, …
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To what extent does the European recast Qualification Directive protect refugee women seeking asylum on the basis of gender-related claims?
… Directive intended to achieve the harmonization of the asylum determination procedures among European states. The Qualification Directive introduced minimum standards for the determination of asylum claims, aiming at equal outcomes in decision-making processes, especially on first instance …
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Ways to Refuge: Bosnians in Central New York in Ethnographic Perspective
… documents the resettlement experiences of Bosnian Muslims relocated to two urban locales in the north of New York State during and after the Bosnian War in the Balkans. To do so, it relies on ethnographic data gathered mainly through extensive interviews and participant-observation …
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To what extent does Zimbabwe comply with its international obligations for the protection of unaccompanied and separated refugee children?
… under international law for the protection of UARC. Chapter one was an introduction to the study laying out the background of refugee and child protection. The background established that it was after World War II that the international community saw the need for an international instrument …
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Emigration, Repatriation and the Reality of Returned Youth in El Salvador
… Salvador) have been detained at the US border, of those 59 thousand, 17 thousand are from El Salvador. El Salvador is home to some of the most dangerous and ruthless gangs of the twenty-first century. Their ruthlessness comes from 1980s guerrilla warfare experience. In addition, El Salvador …