Internal Displacement and Statelessness; the theory and practice
Internal Displacement and Statelessness; the theory and practice
Introduction
The Refugee Convention of 1951 defines the term ‘refugee’ in words that are very much self-explanatory when it says that a refugee is an individual who “owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to, or owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country.” The people who have to flee their homes and sometimes their countries face challenges that ...
