The right to asylum: Why Europe has to take in migrants fleeing persecution by Dara Lind of Vox Media
From Vox: A group of Afghan migrants preparing to seek asylum at the border of an EU country. Matej Divizna/Getty
"Thousands of migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean this year attempting to reach Europe, including as many as 800 who died over the weekend when their ship capsized off the coast of Libya. Thousands more are probably going to drown before the end of this year. Many of the migrants who cross the Mediterranean — often without pilots or seaworthy boats — are Syrians fleeing their country's civil war; others are Eritreans fleeing a brutal dictatorship that would have shot them if caught trying to escape."
Countries are legally obligated to take in refugees and consider applications from asylum-seekers.
People seeking refugee or asylum status have to show they've been persecutedTo get either refugee status or asylum, according to the official definition laid out by the UN (which is what the US follows in its own immigration law), an individual has to prove two things:
The difference between "refugees" and "asylum-seekers"The term "asylum-seeker" refers to someone who is trying to get humanitarian protection but hasn't officially been approved yet. The term "refugee" is used for someone who's been officially found to be fleeing persecution, either by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees or by another country.
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Countries are legally obligated to take in refugees and consider applications from asylum-seekers.
People seeking refugee or asylum status have to show they've been persecutedTo get either refugee status or asylum, according to the official definition laid out by the UN (which is what the US follows in its own immigration law), an individual has to prove two things:
- He or she has been persecuted
- The persecution was because of his/her race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group
The difference between "refugees" and "asylum-seekers"The term "asylum-seeker" refers to someone who is trying to get humanitarian protection but hasn't officially been approved yet. The term "refugee" is used for someone who's been officially found to be fleeing persecution, either by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees or by another country.
Read more here about this article.
From Vox: Kurdish refugees from Syria in a Turkish camp. (Gokhan Sahin/Getty)
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