Asylum

Equivalents

Azyl — Asyl — Asilo — Azyl

Related terms

• (is obtained through) Asylum procedure
• (applies for) Asylum seeker
• (type of) political asylum, diplomatic asylum
• Geneva Convention
• migrant
• Non-refoulement
• Permit to remain / exceptional leave to remain
• refugee status
• stateless person

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/

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.

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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/