Difference between revisions of "Asylum"
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* (is obtained through) [[Asylum procedure]] | * (''is obtained through'') [[Asylum procedure]] | ||
* ( | * (''is applied for by'') [[Asylum seeker]], [[refugee]] | ||
* | * political asylum, diplomatic asylum (''are types of'') | ||
* | *(''grants a refugee'') permit to remain | ||
*(''is a national alternative to'') [[refugee status]] | |||
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Revision as of 12:50, 23 June 2022
Equivalents
Related terms
- (is obtained through) Asylum procedure
- (is applied for by) Asylum seeker, refugee
- political asylum, diplomatic asylum (are types of)
- (grants a refugee) permit to remain
- (is a national alternative to) refugee status
Definition
International law guarantees to each person fleeing persecution the right to request asylum in a safe country.
Source: https://origins.osu.edu/
Encyclopaedic information
The broader case is that not every asylum seeker is a refugee.
Source: https://youth4policy.org/
Asylum laws differ in each European state because the EU considers immigration law a matter of national sovereignty.
Source: https://origins.osu.edu/
Synonyms and variants
Collocations
- application for asylum, asylum application
- right of asylum
- asylum process, procedure, system
- asylum seeker, applicants
- asylum status
- asylum laws, policy, system
- to seek, claim, request, apply for asylum
- to grant, provide, give asylum (to be granted, provided, given asylum)
- to deny asylum (to be denied asylum)
Examples
A co-ordinated inter-governmental response, such as a unified asylum system, will spread the burden of hosting new refugees throughout the EU.
Source: https://newint.org/
This prevents asylum applicants in the EU from applying for asylum to numerous member states and situations when no member state takes responsibility for an asylum seeker.
Source: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/
Indeed, the number of Syrians seeking asylum in Europe is not even close to the number already within the borders of Syria's neighboring countries.
Source: https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/