REFUGEES

REFUGEES

1. Asylum Seekers

   • Failed Asylum
     • Economic Migrants
     • Trouble of Repatriation
   • Granted Asylum (Refugee Status)
     • Humanitarian Protection/ Discretionary leave to remain
       • Only a few Years
       • Not allowed to work and must accept dispersal
   • After Cold War the West became less welcoming to to lack of 'POSITIVE POLITICAL PROPAGANDA'

2. Effects on States

   • Flee from
     • Bad publicity
     • Loss of man power
       • more educated people leaving
   • Flee to
     • economic
       • UK £1.2bn
       • camps in Rwanda
     • Political
       • UK - BNP support
         • Positive political propaganda
     • social
     • environmental

3. UNHCR

   • Between a Rock and a Hard Place?
     • Mandate Vs International Politics
   • General Info
     • United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
     • 1951 - UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
       • After WW2 (Jews fleeing the Holocaust)
       • 147 countries signed in the middle of the Cold War
         • Positive Political Propaganda
         • Countries retained the right to define refugee status and now recognition rates vary
   • People of Concern (2011)
     • REFUGEES 15.2m
     • ASYLUM SEEKERS 0.9m
     • IDP 26.4m
     • INCLUDES
       • stateless
       • 7 Million protracted Situations
       • 4.8million Palestinian refugees
       • 49% women; 46% under 18
       • 80% in developing states
         • 42% in states whose GDP per cap in less than $300
       • ASIA 40% and AFRICA 20%