SOSC 2351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Individual Psychological Assessment, Non-Refoulement
22 Jan 2018
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Lecture #11 - human rights and forced migration. Refugees as evidence of human rights abuses. People who are persecuted and deprived of their homes, communities and livelihood forced forced to flee across borders. Wars, violence, human rights abuse, tensions over identity, ethnicity, religion and politics. Security concern and burden on local/national economies. Give rise to new politics of xenophobia, fueling new policies intended to restrict access to asylum. Precarious existence (failed/fragile state, ethnic cleansing) is not alleviated as refugee (prolonged exile, encampment, traffickers) 1951 convention relating to the status of refugees (aka. Key legal document defining who is a refugee, their rights and the legal obligations of states. Builds on article 14 of the udhr, which recognizes the rights of persons to seek asylum from persecution. Initially restricted to persons who became refugees due to the events occurring in europe before 1 january 1951. 1967 protocol removed geographical and temporal restrictions. Article 1 defines a refugee as someone who:
