AIR102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Convention Relating To The Status Of Refugees, International Relations, September 11 Attacks
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Become a national security policy problem- 9/11. Forced migration is a problem for both migrants or states. Voluntary (bored, education, love)/forced (conflict, poverty, fleeing (violence or threat), famine, climate) Asylum seekers: formally request asylum, cant not deny them process- but states do, eg australia. Irregular migration: the right to flee danger and seek asylum is enshrined in international law (arriving in a country without paperwork with the intention of seeking asylum is not (cid:858)illegal(cid:859)) Have a right to process them but not a law. Defines refugee and obliged countries who have signed the convention to give such individual certain rights. Since the end of the cw and particularly since 9/11 attacks, the study of migration has become firmly embedded in international relations. The case was further strengthened by the madrid bombings and the london tube bombings, all involving either migrants or citizens of immigrant origin.
