POL S 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Habitual Residence, Well-Founded Relation
29 Nov 2016
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Department
Course
Professor
Urbatsch 345
November 29th, 2016
Refugees
Forced Migration
Refugees ad iteall displaed pesos
Treated on different standards by international law
These categories have legal definitions; in U.S (VIA 1951 and 1967 conventions) a
refugee is:
Outside country of nationality or stateless and outside last country of habitual residence
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Because of persecution or a well-founded fear thereof
On account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or
political affiliation
The President may also include otherwise- qualified types living in their home countries
Ol afte appopiate osultatios: Caiet-level agents and Congress’s Judiia
Committees
United States (not unusually) excludes anyone who did the sorts of persecution that
produces refugees
Dissimulation
Establishing who meets these criteria is difficult
Many are invisible; documentation is rarely available
At the same time, refugee status grants legal benefits there are incentives for specious
or marginal claimes
E.g means-tested benefits unavailable for most during first five years of legal
residency, unless refugees
(Others: Cubans, Haitians, pregnant, children, trafficking victims, and veterans)
Poolig euiliiu s. sepaatig euiliiu
Identifying Refugees
Further, many of the characteristics that produce eligibility are amorphous
Persecution is not sufficient to become a refugee
Requires proving membership in the group and that past or future persecution related
membership
Particular “ocial Groups
Social groups cannot be defined by persecution
This eteds the peseutio is isuffiiet logi
Analogous to identifying why school bullies choose targets
Involves specific, distinctive, immutable trait
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Document Summary
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