Original scientific paper
Refugees, Individuals Seeking Asylum and the Issue of Human Rights' Implementation
Pavao Jonjić
; Institute for Migration and Nationalities, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
In most analyses and theoretical considerations the refugee issue has been treated as a political or legal matter while its other aspects have rarely been taken into account. In addition, it should be mentioned that forced migration presents a very difficult subject for empirical research, the result being a lack of indicators which could help us understand it better.
The author believes that there is a need to problematize a number of questions concerning forced migration, and these are: the relation between international regulatory rules and the responsibility of the international community for the position of refugees, the problem of unprotected groups of forced migrants, the refugee issue and the question of development, life in exile and the socio-cultural circumstances, the problem of adaptation and engaging refugees in the life of the new community and also the possibility of protection of the human rights of forced migrants.
Moreover, the author stresses that the observance of human rights and the ensuring of a more humane position for refugees is not only a political matter, also a matter of civilization, and in some parts of the world — a matter of development as well. Creating the necessary conditions for the repatriation of refugees and the elimination of the reasons causing exile, is the key to the solution of the refugee issue.
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155432
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Publication date:
31.12.1989.
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