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Non-refoulement (/ r ə ˈ f uː l m ɒ̃ /) is a fundamental principle of international law anchored in the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees that forbids a country from deporting ("refoulement") any person to any country in which their "life or freedom would be threatened" on account of "race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion".
In the case of refugees under the Geneva Refugee Convention, the host nation has certain obligations with regard to the integration of the refugee in all these phases. These include, in particular, access to the host state's labour market (Article 17), access to schooling (Article 22), public welfare (Article 23) and facilitated integration and ...
Whereas 'refugee' has an authoritative definition under the 1951 Refugee Convention, there is no universal legal definition of internally displaced persons (IDP); only a regional treaty for African countries (see Kampala Convention). However, a United Nations report, Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement uses the definition of:
The emergence of refugee studies as a distinct field of study has been criticized by scholars due to terminological difficulty. Since no universally accepted definition for the term "refugee" exists, the academic respectability of the policy-based definition, as outlined in the 1951 Refugee Convention, is disputed. Additionally, academics have ...
Opposition to immigration, also known as anti-immigration, is a political position that seeks to restrict immigration.In the modern sense, immigration refers to the entry of people from one state or territory into another state or territory in which they are not citizens.
Human migration is the movement of people from one place to another, [1] with intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily, at a new location (geographic region). The movement often occurs over long distances and from one country to another (external migration), but internal migration (within a single country) is the dominant form of human migration globally.
A refugee is a person who has left their home country under threat of their life, and cannot or will not return there. Refugee or Refugees may also refer to:
Refugees integrate more slowly into host countries' labor markets than labor migrants, in part due to the loss and depreciation of human capital and credentials during the asylum procedure. [155] Refugees tend to do worse in economic terms than natives, even when they have the same skills and language proficiencies of natives.