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Asylum and legal protection: a history

In: Research Handbook on Asylum and Refugee Policy

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  • Phil Orchard

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This chapter examines how asylum and legal protections developed through three different stages over time, first through domestic and bilateral legal protections; then through tentative international efforts within the League of Nations, and then, finally, with the creation of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and of the Refugee Convention. Each of these stages represented significant development in how both political asylum and legal protections were understood; but at each stage, too, these developments were frequently fraught and limited. Nonetheless, each of these steps helped to lay the foundation for the modern international refugee regime, helping to define clear understandings of both political asylum and how legal protections should function.

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  • Phil Orchard, 2024. "Asylum and legal protection: a history," Chapters, in: Jane Freedman & Glenda Santana de Andrade (ed.), Research Handbook on Asylum and Refugee Policy, chapter 2, pages 25-38, Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:21153_2
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