Download or read book Asylum Seeker and Refugee Protection in Sub Saharan Africa written by Cristiano d'Orsi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not often acknowledged that the great majority of African refugee movement happens within Africa rather than from Africa to the West. This book examines the specific characteristics and challenges of the refugee situation in Sub-Saharan Africa, offering a new and critical vision on the situation of asylum-seekers and refugees in the African continent. Cristiano d’Orsi considers the international, regional and domestic legal and institutional frameworks linked to refugee protection in Sub-Saharan Africa, and explores the contributions African refugee protection has brought to the cause on a global scale. Key issues covered in the book include the theory and the practice of non-refoulement, an analysis of the phenomenon of mass-influx, the concept of burden-sharing, and the role of freedom fighters. The book goes on to examine the expulsions of refugees and the historical role played by UNHCR in Sub-Saharan Africa. As a work which follows the persecution and legal challenges of those in search of a safe haven, this book will be of great interest and use to researchers and students of immigration and asylum law, international law, human rights, and African studies.

Download or read book African Refugees written by Toyin Falola and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Refugees is a comprehensive overview of the context, causes, and consequences of refugee lives, discussing issues, policies, and solutions for African refugees around the world. It covers overarching topics such as human rights, policy frameworks, refugee protection, and durable solutions, as well as less-studied topics such as refugee youths, refugee camps, LGBTQ refugees, urban refugees, and refugee women. It also takes on rare but emergent topics such as citizenship and the creativity of African refugees. Toyin Falola and Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso showcase the voices and experiences of individual refugees through the sweep of history to tell the African refugee story from the historical past through current developments, covering the full range of experience from the causes of flight to living in exile, all while maintaining a persistent focus on the complicated search for solutions. African Refugees recognizes African agency and contributions in pursuit of solutions for African refugees over time but avoids the pitfalls of the colonial gaze—where refugees are perpetually pathologized and Africa is always the sole cause of its own problems—seeking to complicate these narratives by recognizing African refugee issues within exploitative global, colonial, and neo-colonial systems of power.

Download or read book Specific Characteristics and Challenges of Refugee and Asylum seeker Protection in Sub Saharan Africa written by Cristiano D'Orsi and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Realising Socio Economic Rights of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Africa written by Ebenezer Durojaye and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the socio-economic rights challenges of refugees and asylum seekers in Africa. It seeks to fill a major gap in the literature by providing a nuanced discussion of the barriers to the realisation of the socio-economic rights of refugees and asylum seekers in Africa. It equally aims to provide some concrete recommendations to African governments towards the realisation of the socio-economic rights of refugees and asylum seekers. With the aid of lessons from selected African countries, this book highlights the gaps, challenges and good practices regarding the realisation of the socio-economic rights of refugees and asylum seekers in the region. The book will be useful to researchers, students, academicians, policymakers, and international organisations or institutions interested in advancing the rights of refugees and asylum seekers.

Download or read book Perspectives on Refugee Protection in South Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes statistics.

Download or read book Rendering South Africa Undesirable written by Jonathan Crush and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand the policy environment within which refugees establish and operate their enterprises in South Africas informal sector, this report brings together two streams of policy analysis. The first concerns the changing refugee policies and the erosion of the progressive approach that characterized the immediate post-apartheid period. The second concerns the informal sector policy, which oscillates between tolerance and attempted destruction at national and municipal levels. While there have been longstanding tensions between foreign and South African informal sector operators, an overtly anti-foreign migrant sentiment has increasingly been expressed in official policy and practice. This report describes the strategies being used to turn South Africa into an undesirable destination for refugees, including the setting up of additional procedural, administrative and logistical hurdles; the undercutting of court judgments affirming the right of asylum-seekers and refugees to employment and self-employment; ensuring that protection is always temporary by making it extremely difficult for refugees to progress to permanent residence and eventual citizenship; and restricting opportunities to pursue a livelihood in the informal sector. The authors conclude that the protection of refugee rights is likely to continue to depend on a cohort of non-governmental organizations prioritizing migrant livelihood rights and being willing and able to pursue time-consuming and costly litigation on their behalf.

Download or read book Advancing Refugee Protection in South Africa written by Jeff Handmaker and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided into three thematic parts to guide the reader, this important volume documents the development and implementation of refugee policy in South Africa over a 10-year period from 1996 until 2006. In doing so, it addresses issues of detention, gender, children and health as well as welfare policies for refugees. The contributions, all written by academics and practitioners of refugee protection, vividly illustrate the tangible shifts and concerns of a process that is not only aimed at establishing policies and legislation but also practices concerning refugees.

Download or read book Asylum Seeker and Refugee Protection in Sub Saharan Africa written by Cristiano d'Orsi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not often acknowledged that the great majority of African refugee movement happens within Africa rather than from Africa to the West. This book examines the specific characteristics and challenges of the refugee situation in Sub-Saharan Africa, offering a new and critical vision on the situation of asylum-seekers and refugees in the African continent. Cristiano d’Orsi considers the international, regional and domestic legal and institutional frameworks linked to refugee protection in Sub-Saharan Africa, and explores the contributions African refugee protection has brought to the cause on a global scale. Key issues covered in the book include the theory and the practice of non-refoulement, an analysis of the phenomenon of mass-influx, the concept of burden-sharing, and the role of freedom fighters. The book goes on to examine the expulsions of refugees and the historical role played by UNHCR in Sub-Saharan Africa. As a work which follows the persecution and legal challenges of those in search of a safe haven, this book will be of great interest and use to researchers and students of immigration and asylum law, international law, human rights, and African studies.

Download or read book Specific Characteristics and Challenges of Refugee and Asylum Seeker Protection in Sub Sahara Africa written by Cristiano D'Orsi and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Implementation of the Principle of Non Refoulement in Africa The Protection of the Rights of Refugees in situation of Massive Influx written by Loyd Marcel Minka and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2017 in the subject Politics - Topic: Public International Law and Human Rights, grade: Principle of non-refoulement, University of Yaoundé I (Catholic Institut of Yaoundé (Cameroon) - Academy of Peace and Human Rights at the Catholic University of Central Africa (Cameroon)), course: Refugee Protection, language: English, abstract: There are many international standards or instruments which protect the rights of refugees to non-refoulment. These instruments are: the United Nations convention relating to the status of refugees of 1951 and its protocol of 1967, the international covenant on civil and political rights of 1966, the United Nations convention against torture of 1989 and the Convention of the Organization of the African Unity governing the specific aspects of refugee problems in Africa adopted in 1969. These instruments play a great role in favoring the implementation of the principle of non-refoulement.

Download or read book The Problems of Refugees in Africa written by Ebenezer Q . Blavo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this volume is an attempt to make the facts of the tremendous physical, social and psychological problems for the uprooted due to the numerous conflicts known to all and to stress the need for a concerted effort by all to achieve lasting peace on the continent. Ebenezer Q. Blavo had substantial opportunity to observe first hand and be in close contact with refugees of almost all African nationalities. He explores concepts and experiences of being refugees as well as current and potential refugee policies for African countries. This book forms part of a series on voices in development management, in which grass roots organisations and development practitioners can voice their views and present their perspectives along with the conventional development experts. Many of the volumes in the series will contain explicit debates between the various voices in development and permit the suite of neglected development issues such as gender and transport or the microcredit needs of low income communities to receive appropriate public and professional attention.

Download or read book Refugees South of the Sahara written by St. John's University (New York, N.Y.) and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1970 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Reference Guide to Refugee Law and Issues in Southern Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book African Refugees and the Law written by Göran Melander and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seminar on Legal Aspects of the African Refugee Problem, which took place in Uppsala in 1977, formed part of the preparations for the 1979 Arusha Conference on African Refugees. This book contains the papers presented to the seminar and the report on the discussions. There were six main topics, each covered by a working paper: 'Convention Refugees and De Facto Refugees' (P. Weis); 'Determination of Refugee Status under International Law' (G. Jaeger); 'Refugees in Orbit' (G. Melander); 'African Refugees in Europe' (B. Weibo); 'Political Rights and Freedom of Refugees' (A. Grahl-Madsen); and 'National Law and Model Legislation on the Rights and Protection of Refugees in Africa' (P. Nobel).

Download or read book South Africa written by Nobuntu Mbelle and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recommendations. To the government of South Africa - To the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. -- Background. -- The legal framework. International principles - South African law. -- Obstacles in the refugee status determination process. Overview of the process - Applying for asylum. The fourteen-day permit to report to a refugee reception office - Inability to gain access to the refugee reception office - Corrupt practices. First interview - Response of Department of Home Affairs. - Lack of official interpreters - Delays in the determination of refugee status - Failure to recognize the legal right to work and study - Hearing before the refugee status determination officer and determination of claims. - Appeal and review of refugee status determination decisions. Lack of legal representation - Growing backlog of appeals. - Refugee status entitlements. Documentation and duration of refugee status - Permanent residency. -- Inadequate protection for refugees and asylum seekers. Harassment, mistreatment and extortion of asylum seekers and refugees by law enforcement agencies - Arrest, detention and the threat of deportation of refugees and asylum seekers as "illegal foreigners". Unlawful detention and the threat of deportation of refugees and asylum seekers at Lindela Deportation Center. - Detention beyond the thirty-day limit. - Failure to adequately protect unaccompanied minors. Legal standards - Children and the refugee status determination process in South Africa - Detention of unaccompanied children at Lindela Deportation Center - Children's lack of access to assistance and social services. - Social assistance for refugees and asylum seekers in Johannesburg. Legal standards - The right to work - Access to housing - Access to health care and medical treatment. -- The role of UNHCR. -- Conclusion. -- Acknowledgements.

Download or read book Survival Migration written by Alexander Betts and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International treaties, conventions, and organizations to protect refugees were established in the aftermath of World War II to protect people escaping targeted persecution by their own governments. However, the nature of cross-border displacement has transformed dramatically since then. Such threats as environmental change, food insecurity, and generalized violence force massive numbers of people to flee states that are unable or unwilling to ensure their basic rights, as do conditions in failed and fragile states that make possible human rights deprivations. Because these reasons do not meet the legal understanding of persecution, the victims of these circumstances are not usually recognized as “refugees,” preventing current institutions from ensuring their protection. In this book, Alexander Betts develops the concept of “survival migration” to highlight the crisis in which these people find themselves. Examining flight from three of the most fragile states in Africa—Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Somalia—Betts explains variation in institutional responses across the neighboring host states. There is massive inconsistency. Some survival migrants are offered asylum as refugees; others are rounded up, detained, and deported, often in brutal conditions. The inadequacies of the current refugee regime are a disaster for human rights and gravely threaten international security. In Survival Migration, Betts outlines these failings, illustrates the enormous human suffering that results, and argues strongly for an expansion of protected categories.

Download or read book Asylum Seeking Trauma written by Roben Pfumai Mutwira and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each asylum seeker has a story of why he left home, the difficulties he met on the journey and how he got asylum. Some are unable to retell their stories because of the amount of suffering they experienced in the different countries they passed through. But there is nothing more painful than being told that what you suffered is a lie, and then being detained and deported to the very countries you had run away and sitting your mind to receive the treatment you thought you had escaped. This book appeals to people in authority to please believe the stories of asylum seekers; give them a new home; a job and a future.