GEOG 2210 Lecture Notes - Post-Keynesian Economics, Xenophobia, Well-Founded Relation
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A refugee is to be lost :( Forcing one to make a living where social and political frameworks do not enable the refugee to live/decode living. Refugee is defined as an individual with a well-founded fear of persecution on the grounds of nationality, race, political opinion, religion, or membership of a particular social group the convention carefully defined the term. Allowed refugees to work, gain travel documents, travel freely, etc. Refugees were not allowed to be sent back to the countries that would persucte them. Asylum seeker - the term implies that pretenders to the title of refugee . Harsh practices = xenophobic and appease poorly informed public. However the opposition worry that lax asylum policies can erode the rights of citizens in liberal democratic states. Western states now recognize the rights of refugees but simultaneously criminalize the search for asylum the term refugee was very clear post wwii: - those who fled communist states in eastern and central europe.
