Is It Lawful to Detain People Who Are Seeking to Be Recognized As Refugees as Lawfulness Does Not Only Depend on the Applicable National Law but Also Compliance to Article 31 of 1951 of the Convention Relating to Refugee Status and International Law

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Is It Lawful to Detain People Who Are Seeking to Be Recognized As Refugees as Lawfulness Does Not Only Depend on the Applicable National Law but Also Compliance to Article 31 of 1951 of the Convention Relating to Refugee Status and International Law

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Auckland University of Technology

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New Zealand domestic law allows detention of individual asylum seekers and members of ‘mass arrival group’ despite not being concerned with the exceptions provided by the Convention Related to the Status of Refugees of 1951 and the Convention Protocol of 1967 and international law. Currently, In New Zealand there is no research conducted to evaluate the existing safeguards which can guarantee an avoidance of unlawful or arbitrary detention of asylum seekers. In my dissertation, legal comparat...

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Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2021

Creator

Dieudonne, Butoyi

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https://openrepository.aut.ac.nz/handle/10292/14712

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Penalty / Asylum seekers / Refugees / Article 31 / Individual assessment / Deterrence / Arbitrary detention

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