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  • II International framework for refugee protection
  • II.2 The 1951 Geneva Convention

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  • I Introduction to International Refugee Law: background and context
  • II International framework for refugee protection
    • II.1 Universal principles and concepts of refugee protection
    • II.2 The 1951 Geneva Convention
      • II.2.1 Criteria for granting protection
      • II.2.2 Access to territory and protection at sea
      • II.2.3 Access to procedure
      • II.2.4 Reception conditions
      • II.2.5 Procedures for determining refugee status
      • II.2.6 Content of refugee status
      • II.2.7 Detention
    • II.3 Other forms of international protection
    • II.4 Internally Displaced Persons
  • III African Framework for Refugee Protection
  • IV Framework for refugee and IDP protection in the Americas
  • V Asian Framework for refugee protection
  • VI European framework for refugee protection
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II.2 The 1951 Geneva Convention

Main Debate

  • To what extent should the Convention be interpreted according to the original intent v. evolving understandings?
  • Was the Convention a political tool when adopted?

Core Readings

  1. T. Einarsen. The 1951 Convention, in A. Zimmerman (ed.), The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and Its 1967 Protocol: A Commentary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 48-68.
  2. T. Einarsen. The 1967 Protocol, in A. Zimmerman (ed.), The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and Its 1967 Protocol: A Commentary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 68 - 73.

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