SOCIOL 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Refugee Act, French Wars Of Religion, Natural Disaster
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Refugees: how and why refugee flows are produced. Neoclassical view: immigrate to return (to improve or sustain survival strategies at home. Decision making framework can"t t (degrees of compulsion) Characteristics of refugee ows: large-scale, sudden, not selective not network driven. The distinction between migrant ows and refugee ows is dif cult to explain. Migration becomes less selective over time example vietnamese seeking haven in us from war (still going on-migration) Refugee: protestant ooding france to seek refuge from religious persecution in 17th and 18th century, following revocation of edict of nantes anyone that has to leave due to natural disaster persecution. Not having a nationality (stateless) vs those who leave their own country. Refugee status comes with rights not granted to normal immigrants. Us not a signatory, because wanted a narrower de nition. Right of non-refoulement: can"t return a refugee back to the state where life | freedom would be threatened.
