POLA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Well-Founded Relation, Protocol Relating To The Status Of Refugees
14 Feb 2018
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Asylum: a place safe from persecution; usually a country which offers protection to a victim of torture and oppression (oxford dictionary of political science, universal declaration of human rights. Politics of refugee policy: the question of who really is a refugee deserving or asylum has become highly politicised, growing humanitarian concern for displaced persons versus interest in limiting access to real refugees. Humanitarian criticise the un definition for requiring evidence of persecution and for being excessively narrow. States typically prefer the narrower definition for self-interested reasons. The system of refugees was created to accommodate the people who were fleeing from the soviet union and its related countries. Initially was a small number, however once the cold war ended there was an increase in the number of asylum seekers. State-making and refugees: although our formal definitions of refugees are relatively new, the reality of individuals and groups forced to flee their countries because of persecution has a very long history.
