Osnova sekce
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...Coming as someone who is (more or less) welcome. International refugee law.
Target of the lesson:
To look at the current regulation, its background and content.
To prepare:
1. Read the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.
3.Read the UNHCR Global Trends.
Questions for reflection:
1. in general:
- Is there a right to migrate (in the sense of "right to migrate")? Alternatively, why?
- Is there a right to protection as a refugee? Alternatively, why?
- (1) What is the right to a refugee?
- Is migration in general (and refugeeism in particular) a benefit or a burden for the receiving state? Alternatively, why?
- Do we distinguish in law between migration and refugeehood? On what basis?
2. What should the definition of a refugee look like? Should it remain as it is now or include other persons in need?
- Can states consider outsourcing refugee-related issues?
- How to address the issue of solidarity between states (who should receive and how much, "burden sharing" x "burden shifting")?
- Right to enter the state x right to leave the state?
- What if a refugee enters the state illegally?
- Is protection through refugee status available to anyone who has grounds for it?
- Is a person fleeing war a refugee?
- For how long does the state grant protection to refugees?
What we will work with:
The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees