Abstract
This article reconsiders the origins of the concept of ‘persecution’ in international refugee law, thus changing the way the history of the refugee definition has been conventionally understood in refugee law scholarship. It suggests that the concept of persecution, which in legal terms has come to be viewed as a mid-twentieth century characterization of the refugee, was in fact implicit in all the international legal instruments concerning refugees developed from the 1920s onwards.
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