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  2. Asylum seeker - Wikipedia

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    An asylum seeker is a person who leaves their country of residence, enters another country, and makes in that other country a formal application for the right of asylum according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 14. [3] A person keeps the status of asylum seeker until the right of asylum application has concluded.

  3. Refugee - Wikipedia

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    An asylum seeker may have applied for Convention refugee status or for complementary forms of protection. Asylum is thus a category that includes different forms of protection. Which form of protection is offered depends on the legal definition that best describes the asylum seeker's reasons to flee. Once the decision was made the asylum seeker ...

  4. Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees - Wikipedia

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    Prior to the 1951 convention, the League of Nations' Convention relating to the International Status of Refugees, of 28 October 1933, dealt with administrative measures such as the issuance of Nansen certificates, refoulement, legal questions, labour conditions, industrial accidents, welfare and relief, education, fiscal regime and exemption from reciprocity, and provided for the creation of ...

  5. Internally displaced person - Wikipedia

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    The Guiding Principles, however, are non-binding. As Bahame Tom Nyanduga, Special Rapporteur on Refugees, IDPs and Asylum Seekers in Africa for the ACHPR has stated, "the absence of a binding international legal regime on internal displacement is a grave lacuna in international law." [47]

  6. Right of asylum - Wikipedia

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    The right of asylum, sometimes called right of political asylum (asylum from Ancient Greek ἄσυλον (ásulon) 'sanctuary'), [1] [2] is a juridical concept, under which people persecuted by their own rulers might be protected by another sovereign authority, such as a second country or another entity which in medieval times could offer sanctuary.

  7. Approval rates for migrant asylum claims plummet in lead up ...

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    Chinese asylum seekers saw similar success, with 3,159 granted asylum. Trump, who will be integrated as the next President of the United States in six weeks, has vowed to crack down on the migrant ...

  8. International migration - Wikipedia

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    asylum seekers; forced migration; family members; return migrants; long-term, low-skilled migrants [3] These migrants can also be divided into two large groups, permanent and temporary. Permanent migrants intend to establish their permanent residence in a new country and possibly obtain that country's citizenship.

  9. Syrian refugees in Europe fear being forced home after Assad ...

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    It is not clear if asylum seekers will be forced home. ProAsyl, a German NGO that provides legal assistance to asylum seekers, said cases would be in limbo until the foreign ministry publishes its ...