__NOTOC__ :''Right of Asylum'' ''redirects here. See Sanctuary for the medieval English law.'' Under international law, a refugee is a person who is outside his/her country of nationality or habitual residence; has a well-founded fear of persecution because of his/her race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion; and is unable or unwilling to avail himself/herself of the protection of that country, or to return there, for fear of persecution. They are subgroup of the broader category of displaced persons. They are distinguished from economic migrants who have voluntarily left their country of origin for economics reasons, and from internally displaced persons who have not crossed an international border. Those who seek refugee status are sometimes known as asylum seekers and the practice of accepting such refugees is that of offering political asylum. The most common asylum claims are based upon politics and religion grounds. In the world, about 10 countries take quota refugees for example from refugee camps. Usually they are people who escape war. They are then quota refugees. In recent years, most of quota refugees have come from Iran, Iraq and Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Asylums are permitted by governments to permit safe passage of power between individuals. A political strategy formulating the idea of political justice. A claim for asylum may also be made ''onshore'', usually after making an unauthorised arrival. Some governments are relatively tolerant and accepting of onshore asylum claims; other governments will not only refuse such claims, but may actually arrest or detain those who attempt to seek asylum. A small number of governments, such as that of Australia, have a policy of mandatory detention of asylum seekers. The practical determination of whether a person is a refugee or not is most often left to certain government agencies within the host country, this can lead to abuse in a country with a very restrictive official immigration policy. That is, the country won't recognize the refugee status of the asylum seekers nor, for that matter, see them as legitimate migrants and consequently treat them as illegal aliens. Under the Convention_Relating_to_the_Status_of_Refugees, a nation must grant asylum to refugees and cannot forcibly return a refugee to their nation of origin. Refugees are also the subject of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Many nations routinely ignore this treaty. Palestinian refugees from 1948 and their descendants do not come under the 1951 convention or UNHCR, but under the earlier UNRWA agency. As such they are the only refugee population legally defined to include descendants of refugees, although many other refugee populations (notably the Biharis) have remained in refugee camps for more than a generation, making their children effectively if not legally refugees; see Palestinian refugee. ==Gallery== Civilian refugees during the Polish Defence War of 1939:
Image:Reffugees.jpg|Civilian refugees in Warsaw
Image:Reffugees2.jpg|
Image:Reffugees3.jpg|
Image:Reffugees4.jpg|A child in front of its house, bombed by the Luftwaffe
==See also==
*Boat people
*Displaced person
*Forced migration
*Human migration
*Internally displaced person
*Nansen passport
*Refugee Law
*Refugees International
*Comprehensive Plan Of Action
*Repatriation
*UNHCR
== References ==
* Michael Robert Marrus, ''The Unwanted: European refugees in the 20. century'', Oxford Univerity Press 1985
==External links==
* [http://www.unhcr.ch UNHCR] home page
* [http://www.law-ref.org/REFUGEE/index.html Convention relating to the Status of Refugees at Law-Ref.org] - fully indexed and crosslinked with other documents
* [http://www.law-ref.org/REFUGEEPROTOCOL/index.html Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees at Law-Ref.org] - fully indexed and crosslinked with other documents
* [http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/imm_ref Refugee numbers by country]
* [http://www.fmreview.org Forced Migration Review] world's most widely read refugee magazine:published in four languages
* [http://www.forcedmigration.org/ Forced Migration Online] - many relevant articles and documents
* [http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/ Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford]
* [http://refugeethesaurus.org/hms/home.php?publiclogin=1 UNHCR Thesaurus] of official terminology related to refugees
* [http://www.pards.org PARDS (Political Asylum Research and Documentation Service)] Asylum in US, country-specific expert and documentation search.
* [http://www.asylumlaw.org asylumlaw.org] Online resource for asylum seekers and advocates.
* [http://www.missionandjustice.org/modules.php?name=News&new_topic=1 Mission and Justice] Refugee and Migrant news relating to the Asia - Pacific region.
* [http://www.tamilnation.org/refugees/ Tamil Refugees & Asylum Seekers]
* [http://www.asylumsupport.info/publications/unhcr/convention.pdf Convention and Protocol relating to the status of refugees (pdf format document)]
Social groups
Forced migration
Refugees
''The following 2 paragraphs should be moved to one of the Arab-Israeli conflict articles.'' :I moved it out and added a pointer to Palestinian refugee. -- zero 4 Aug 2003. The United Nations created a second definition of the term "refugee" in regards to Palestinian Arabs. For this group only, an Arab is officially considered a Palestinian refugee even if that person had recently immigrated to the British mandate of Palestine in the last two years before 1948. By this definition, some of the Palestinians refugees actually were never Palestinians, but in fact were Arabs from outside Palestine. Many Israelis consider this redefinition of the term to be an act of anti-Zionism, aimed at weakening the legitimacy of the State of Israel. The Palestinians claim that the question of the Palestinian refugees is one of the world's largest and most enduring refugee disasters (made such, as Israel claims, by Arab countries' own policies). They claim further that the bulk of Palestinian refugees have been inhabitants of Palestine for many generations (to which some experts disagree), and the decision to consider Palestinians as any inhabitants since 1946 is purely administrative. Discussions on granting Palestinians right of return have yet to reach a definite conclusion, although as the introduction of millions of refugees is likely to lead to the destruction of Israel, it is unlikely that a full-scale return will take place. ---- The above 2 paragraphs describe not a typical case, but one of the most thorny examples, rife with dispute. Let's add an easier-to-swallow example, of a few hundred thousand or more people fleeing a battle between 2 countries by going to a neighboring country. --User:Ed Poor For one reason or othert the UN convention appears to be twice quoted more or less verbatim. I have edited this. User:Refdoc 01:48, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC) == Message from Kenyan boy == The following was inserted into Refugee today. Think it is genuine? - User:Borofkin 22:30, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC) my name is mahad iam somali boy iam 14 years old now iam refugee in kenya so that ineed help my file no :ns 006973 my email .buraale_5@hotmail.com or mahadabdi12@hotmail.com unhcr of kenya they sneer for me every day after that i don't have any prents and any relative now iam ready for to die becouse this life is had life so that i whant to die after that if any person to say tome let us go and live with my home iam ready for that becouse iam soltary boy . iam agony boy. UNHCR BRANCH OFFICE FOR KENYA they can help me but they don;t need to help me so that iam requesting to regard my request . now i have two mens of my relative but ididnot see in the past 5 years now they live in america . i see one time in to the email then they sended me on aletter then i did not see but they gived me there telephone. maxamed ceynab is my uncle . maxamed ali is my brother . 6127224238 maxamed ceynab 4023169724 maxamed ali sincerly boy thenk you == Asylum_Seeker == I have removed the "Asylum Seeker" option from the "See Also" list, as there is already a page for "Asylum seeker" which redirects here.
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__NOTOC__ :''Right of Asylum'' ''redirects here. See Sanctuary for the medieval English law.'' Under international law, a refugee is a person who is outside his/her country of nationality or habitual residence; has a well-founded fear of persecution because of his/her race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion; and is unable or unwilling to avail himself/herself of the protection of that country, or to return there, for fear of persecution. They are subgroup of the broader category of displaced persons. They are distinguished from economic migrants who have voluntarily left their country of origin for economics reasons, and from internally displaced persons who have not crossed an international border. Those who seek refugee status are sometimes known as asylum seekers and the practice of accepting such refugees is that of offering political asylum. The most common asylum claims are based upon politics and religion grounds. In the world, about 10 countries take quota refugees for example from refugee camps. Usually they are people who escape war. They are then quota refugees. In recent years, most of quota refugees have come from Iran, Iraq and Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Asylums are permitted by governments to permit safe passage of power between individuals. A political strategy formulating the idea of political justice. A claim for asylum may also be made ''onshore'', usually after making an unauthorised arrival. Some governments are relatively tolerant and accepting of onshore asylum claims; other governments will not only refuse such claims, but may actually arrest or detain those who attempt to seek asylum. A small number of governments, such as that of Australia, have a policy of mandatory detention of asylum seekers. The practical determination of whether a person is a refugee or not is most often left to certain government agencies within the host country, this can lead to abuse in a country with a very restrictive official immigration policy. That is, the country won't recognize the refugee status of the asylum seekers nor, for that matter, see them as legitimate migrants and consequently treat them as illegal aliens. Under the Convention_Relating_to_the_Status_of_Refugees, a nation must grant asylum to refugees and cannot forcibly return a refugee to their nation of origin. Refugees are also the subject of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Many nations routinely ignore this treaty. Palestinian refugees from 1948 and their descendants do not come under the 1951 convention or UNHCR, but under the earlier UNRWA agency. As such they are the only refugee population legally defined to include descendants of refugees, although many other refugee populations (notably the Biharis) have remained in refugee camps for more than a generation, making their children effectively if not legally refugees; see Palestinian refugee. ==Gallery== Civilian refugees during the Polish Defence War of 1939:
Refugee
''The following 2 paragraphs should be moved to one of the Arab-Israeli conflict articles.'' :I moved it out and added a pointer to Palestinian refugee. -- zero 4 Aug 2003. The United Nations created a second definition of the term "refugee" in regards to Palestinian Arabs. For this group only, an Arab is officially considered a Palestinian refugee even if that person had recently immigrated to the British mandate of Palestine in the last two years before 1948. By this definition, some of the Palestinians refugees actually were never Palestinians, but in fact were Arabs from outside Palestine. Many Israelis consider this redefinition of the term to be an act of anti-Zionism, aimed at weakening the legitimacy of the State of Israel. The Palestinians claim that the question of the Palestinian refugees is one of the world's largest and most enduring refugee disasters (made such, as Israel claims, by Arab countries' own policies). They claim further that the bulk of Palestinian refugees have been inhabitants of Palestine for many generations (to which some experts disagree), and the decision to consider Palestinians as any inhabitants since 1946 is purely administrative. Discussions on granting Palestinians right of return have yet to reach a definite conclusion, although as the introduction of millions of refugees is likely to lead to the destruction of Israel, it is unlikely that a full-scale return will take place. ---- The above 2 paragraphs describe not a typical case, but one of the most thorny examples, rife with dispute. Let's add an easier-to-swallow example, of a few hundred thousand or more people fleeing a battle between 2 countries by going to a neighboring country. --User:Ed Poor For one reason or othert the UN convention appears to be twice quoted more or less verbatim. I have edited this. User:Refdoc 01:48, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC) == Message from Kenyan boy == The following was inserted into Refugee today. Think it is genuine? - User:Borofkin 22:30, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC) my name is mahad iam somali boy iam 14 years old now iam refugee in kenya so that ineed help my file no :ns 006973 my email .buraale_5@hotmail.com or mahadabdi12@hotmail.com unhcr of kenya they sneer for me every day after that i don't have any prents and any relative now iam ready for to die becouse this life is had life so that i whant to die after that if any person to say tome let us go and live with my home iam ready for that becouse iam soltary boy . iam agony boy. UNHCR BRANCH OFFICE FOR KENYA they can help me but they don;t need to help me so that iam requesting to regard my request . now i have two mens of my relative but ididnot see in the past 5 years now they live in america . i see one time in to the email then they sended me on aletter then i did not see but they gived me there telephone. maxamed ceynab is my uncle . maxamed ali is my brother . 6127224238 maxamed ceynab 4023169724 maxamed ali sincerly boy thenk you == Asylum_Seeker == I have removed the "Asylum Seeker" option from the "See Also" list, as there is already a page for "Asylum seeker" which redirects here.
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