Does Blurring the Notion of Refugee Generate Bogus Refugees and so Security Problems?

Abstract

Refugee is a legal term used to illustrate a person who fulfils the definition set out in the Geneva Convention of 1951 relating to the status of refugees. The term asylum from the Greek word (ἄσυλον) is an early juridical notion, under which a person persecuted for political belief or religious values in his or her own country may be protected by another sovereign authority, a foreign country. Thus, the refugee is fundamentally identified as a person who has crossed an international frontier because of a wellfounded/ justifiable fear of persecution. Moreover, Refugees are forced to flee as a consequence of a threat of persecution and because they lack the protection of their own country. A migrant, in comparison, may leave his or her country for many purposes that are not associated with persecution, such as for the reasons of employment, family reunification or study continuing to have the protection of his or her own government, even when abroad.