SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Ethnic Cleansing, Arab Spring, Convention Relating To The Status Of Refugees
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Refugee flow the displacement of groups or a group of people. Refugee flight tend to be referred to displaced people which has an international connotation. These are people who fled their country of origin. Voluntary migration vs. involuntary migration (refugees), or flight. Voluntary (some) deliberate decision making capacity in the migration policy. Refugee can have broad meaning: 1951 un refugee convention definition: Displaced people could refer to people fleeing from natural disaster, civil war, genocide. People who cannot return to the original state which they were residing. After wwii, migration was different after the lines of the ussr were clearly drawn. Nations of practices perpetuated by nations, protocol, obligations lacking. Canadian diplomat, john peters humphrey helped develop protocol of what to do with refugees or people in flight. Convention: refugee those in refugee like conditions. Idp (internally displaced person) people on the move internally.
