CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Arditi, Lucila Sara |
|---|---|
| Title | African refugees: International legal standards of recognition and its application in Israel |
| Summary | This thesis argues on the one hand, that Israel’s compliance with refugee law is below international refugee protection standards. The State of Israel has historically accorded permanent refugee status to just a few individuals and generally prefers to accord temporary asylum. Israel started to receive large numbers of asylum seekers only recently, thus, the available amount of scholarly research on the subject is also very recent. However, the methodology of choice to prepare this paper was that of literature review of primary and secondary sources regarding refugee and asylum seekers in Israel and in the European Union, to allow for a comparison of the situation of African asylum seekers in Israel with that of refugees in the EU. On the other hand, it will be argued that temporary protection is misunderstood not only by means of its application in Israel but also in most Western States. The main instrument that commands international refugee law is the 1951 United Nations Convention and Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees, which does not require that refugee status be of a permanent nature while it does require that there be international co-operation. It therefore follows that protection can be interpreted as a temporary status until repatriation is feasible and, when repatriation is not possible, the international community as a whole should shoulder more permanent solutions. If this is correct, temporary status in Israel should be commanded by the Refugee Convention with a view to a durable solution that requires of inter- or multi-governmental agreements based on the required international co-operation. |
| Supervisor | Steinorth, Charlotte Dorothea |
| Department | Legal Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/arditi_lucila.pdf |
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