Main Debate
- What is the meaning of the phrase ‘place of habitual residence’?
Main Points
- Existence of a geographic nexus between the enumerated event and the person’s place of habitual residence
- Determining what is a claimant’s particular place of habitual residence includes undertaking a factual enquiry considering all the factors connecting the person to the place where he or she resided
Treaties
- OAU, Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa, 10 September 1969, 1001 U.N.T.S. 45.
Readings
Core
- M. Rankin, ‘Extending the Limits or Narrowing the Scope? Deconstructing the OAU Refugee Definition Thirty Years On’, South African Journal of Human Rights, vol. 21, no. 3 (2005), pp. 432-434.
Extended
- T. Schreier, ‘The OAU Refugee Convention Definition’ in F. Khan and T. Schreier (eds), Refugee Law in South Africa, (Cape Town: Juta, 2014), pp. 88-90.
- T. Schreier, ‘An Evaluation of South Africa’s Application of the OAU Refugee Definition’ Refuge, vol. 24, no. 2, p. 53.
- G. Goodwin-Gill, The Refugee in International Law, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 309-310.