INTD 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Environmental Migrant, Statelessness

• School: McGill University
• Department: International Development
• Course: INTD 200
• Professor: Darin Barney

Document Summary

Hr based organization: durable solutions, impact with gov"t and civil society. Canada: now chairing the committee of unhcr. If person shows up at a border: principle to the right to seek asylum: accept person on territory, and deal with their refugee status, fundamental principle that must be applied to all states, s. Stateless person: not recognized by any country: 12 million: no formal mapping of these people. Us: very generous country of resettlement up until now . Climate refugee in interventional law: definition is changing, currently unaccepted. Detention: people will go where they need to go in order to be protected. Refugees: in urban areas, creating other kinds of problematic issues slavery . More than half of refugees are children never seen before.