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Glossary
1951 Refugee Convention
The United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees 1951. Article 1A(2) contains a definition of a refugee.
Admissability
Asylum Seeker
A refugee who seeks permission to stay in another country is known as an asylum-seeker. Most asylum-seekers seek this permission by applying to be recognised as refugees as defined in Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Refugee Convention.
Convention Refugee
If, upon completion of the country’s asylum determination procedure under the terms of the Refugee Convention, an asylum seeker is granted refugee status, s/he is referred to as a Convention refugee or a recognised refugee.
A refugee is defined in Article 1(a) of the Refugee Convention as a person 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 or her nationality (or former habitual residence) and is unable is unwilling to avail of the protection of that country.
The rights of a Convention refugee are set out in the 1951 Refugee Convention and include, for instance, the right to work and the right to elementary education.
De facto Refugee
In recent years governments have recognised fewer and fewer asylum-seekers as Convention refugees. Instead some asylum-seekers are given permission to remain in a country on humanitarian grounds. Such de facto refugees are more vulnerable to arbitrary decisions by government authorities and do not automatically enjoy the same rights as "Convention refugees".
Dublin Convention
Convention Determining the State Responsible for Examining Applications for Asylum lodged in one of the Member States of the European Union. The Convention was signed in Dublin non 15 June 1990 by all EU Member States and entered into force on 1 September 1997.
Economic Migrant
A person who moves voluntarily from her or his country in order to take up a job or seek a better standard of living in another country is known as an economic migrant.
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