The Challenges of Registration of Asylum-Seekers in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Sarah Mahmoud al-Arasi ◽  
Muneer Mohammad Shahada al-Afaishat ◽  
Tareq Majed al-Tibi
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
Asylum Law ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
Identification Documents ◽  
Card System ◽  
Magnetic Card ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Abstract This study aims to identify difficulties and challenges facing countries without a National Registration Law, with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan as model. Jordan, in compliance with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), regulates the presence of refugees and asylum seekers inside the Kingdom and at its borders in accordance with the UNHCR 1998 Memorandum of Understanding. Many such individuals have lost their identification documents when forced to leave their homelands due to armed conflict. Jordanian authorities try to solve such problems through the use of a magnetic-card system and iris scans. This study concludes that Jordan, in ratio to its population, is the second country worldwide to host the largest number of refugees. This study recommends that Jordan enact a National Asylum Law to regulate the presence of such refugees in the Kingdom.

scholarly journals Research into the psychological well-being of young refugees

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 60-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winnie Lau ◽  
Trang Thomas
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
Political Opinion ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The Status ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Interest in the psychological well-being of refugees and asylum seekers has steadily grown in recent years. Latest estimates indicate there are 32.9 million people of concern to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2006). A refugee is defined as being in that position because of a well-founded fear of persecution due to race, religion, nationality, social group or political opinion, and who is consequently outside and unable to return to his or her country. The status of ‘refugee’ is contrasted with that of a person seeking asylum, whose experiences may be similar but who is not formally determined in the same way.

A corpus-based approach to discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in UN and newspaper texts

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Baker ◽  
Tony McEnery
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Asylum Seeker ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
Lexical Choice ◽  
Essential Aspect ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

A corpus-based analysis of discourses of refugees and asylum seekers was carried out on data taken from a range of British newspapers and texts from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees website, both published in 2003. Concordances of the terms refugee(s) and asylum seeker(s) were examined and grouped along patterns which revealed linguistic traces of discourses. Discourses which framed refugees as packages, invaders, pests or water were found in newspaper texts, although there were also cases of negative discourses found in the UNHCR texts, revealing how difficult it is to disregard dominant discourses. Lexical choice was found to be an essential aspect of maintaining discourses of asylum seekers — collocational analyses of terms like failed vs. rejected revealed the underlying attitudes of the writers towards the subject.

scholarly journals Collective Aspirations

2021 ◽  
pp. 195-208
Author(s):  
Gail Theisen-Womersley
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Mass Flow ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Asylum Seekers And Refugees

AbstractEurope has faced an unprecedented influx of asylum seekers– with over one and a half million sea arrivals reported since 2015 by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). As the “reception crisis” continues unabated, Greece remains one of the first ports of sanctuary. According to recent statistics provided for March 2018 by the UNHCR, over 50,000 asylum seekers and refugees currently remain in Greece following this mass flow.

scholarly journals The Broadening Protection Gap for Stateless Palestinian Refugees in Belgium

2020 ◽  
pp. 300-316
Author(s):  
Wout Van Doren ◽  
Julie Lejeune ◽  
Marjan Claes ◽  
Valérie Klein
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Law ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Palestinian Refugees ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
Determination Procedure ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The Status ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Stateless Person

This paper reflects upon the issue of statelessness, Palestinians and a recent evolution of Belgian caselaw. When seeking to apply the definition of a ‘stateless person’, as found in art 1 of the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons to Palestinians, judges are confronted with specific challenges. Since 2016, divergent standards are developing as to the question of whether, and in which circumstances, Palestinians may be stateless for the purposes of international law. This evolution takes place in a national landscape characterised by a statelessness determination procedure that falls short of standards set out in the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Handbook on Protection of Stateless Persons in a number of areas, while a growing number of asylum seekers originating from Palestine are registered over the period 2016–19. This paper exposes, anno 2020, the protection gaps left open by the remarkably divergent approaches to this question taken by the different national actors involved.

scholarly journals Hong Kong and the Indo-Chinese Refugees: Ref1ections on the International Refugee Environment

Refuge ◽  
1997 ◽  
pp. 38-40
Author(s):  
Alex Cunliffe
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Short Article ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
Boat People ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
International Refugee Regime

The plight of the Vietnamese Boat People in Hong Kong in recent decades has brought into sharp relief the changing character of the international refugee political environment. Over the last twenty years asylum seekers from Vietnam arriving in the former colony have experienced a dramatic change in their reception, treatment and fortunes. For many academic observers, this has highlighted the problems facing the major actors, including the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), within the international refugee regime. This short article highlights this metamorphosis and illustrates that the refugee issue remains unresolved in Hong Kong despite the recent handover to Beijing.

scholarly journals MaRIS - Migration and Refugee Information Studies Research Project

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eeva-Liisa Eskola ◽  
Riitta Hämäläinen ◽  
Anne Ojanperä ◽  
Hilda Ruokolainen
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Research Project ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
Information Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Displaced People

According to the statistics of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR 2017) from 2015 there were 65.3 million forcibly displaced people around the world. Global migration can be expected to be a large question in the world also in the future, for example, the recent refugee and asylum seekers crises in Europe brought with it a number of challenges on many levels. One of the major challenges is connected to communication and information. The goal of the MaRIS project is to strengthen the research in the area of refugee information practices, needs, seeking and use, as well as to promote dialogue and collaboration between the researchers and the practitioners interested in the topic.

scholarly journals Establish ASEAN-AUSTRALIA Communication In Resolving Humanitarian Issues For International Asylum Seekers and Refugees

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Felix Ferdin Bakker
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Recipient Country ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Refugee Status ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
Asean Countries ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

The current problem of refugees cannot be handled with policies that address the root of the problem. The increasing number of refugees in the Southeast Asian region makes transit countries overwhelmed in dealing with this problem. On the other hand, as a refugee recipient country in the last ten years, Australia has had a strict policy in accepting refugees. Australia's approach to return refugee ships to a transit country is a controversial policy because Australia itself is a country that signed the 1951 convention on refugee status. On the other hand, the existence of refugees and asylum seekers has a significant impact on the local community's social changes, and the current refugee policy arrangement is still in the hands of UNHCR ( United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) under the auspices of the United Nations. There has been no concrete communication to touch the root of the problem of refugees and asylum seekers. Through an enthusiastic approach and communication with community-based management between ASEAN countries and Australia, it is hoped that it can resolve human rights issues related to supervision to empower refugees in society to become citizens of a third country, in this case, Australia.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian MacNaughton ◽  
Mariah McGill
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Limited Capacity ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Right

For over two decades, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has taken a leading role in promoting human rights globally by building the capacity of people to claim their rights and governments to fulfill their obligations. This chapter examines the extent to which the right to health has evolved in the work of the OHCHR since 1994, drawing on archival records of OHCHR publications and initiatives, as well as interviews with OHCHR staff and external experts on the right to health. Analyzing this history, the chapter then points to factors that have facilitated or inhibited the mainstreaming of the right to health within the OHCHR, including (1) an increasing acceptance of economic and social rights as real human rights, (2) right-to-health champions among the leadership, (3) limited capacity and resources, and (4) challenges in moving beyond conceptualization to implementation of the right to health.

What Do We Mean by Protection?

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dallal Stevens
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
The State ◽  
Refugee Policy ◽  
International Protection ◽  
Refugee Convention ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
High Commissioner

Protection is arguably the raison-d’être of refugee policy. Yet, surprisingly, the meaning of protection is not without ambiguity. ‘Domestic protection’ can be distinguished from ‘international protection’; the sense attributed to protection within the 1951 Refugee Convention contrasts with that of the 1950 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Statute. Equally, how the state interprets its protective obligations departs frequently from the practice of humanitarian organisations. Alongside such differences, there has been a proliferation of protection concepts in recent years which, far from improving understanding, have added unnecessary confusion and undermined the fundamental purpose of protection. This article considers the language of ‘protection’ within the refugee field and argues that protection proliferation must now be addressed and reversed.

Mandate or Donors? Explaining the UNHCR’s Country-Level Expenditures from 1967 to 2016

2021 ◽  
pp. 003232172097433
Author(s):  
Svanhildur Thorvaldsdottir ◽  
Ronny Patz ◽  
Klaus H Goetz
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Voluntary Contributions ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
Country Level ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
Donor Influence ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Major Donors ◽  
Expenditure Allocation

In recent decades, many international organizations have become almost entirely funded by voluntary contributions. Much existing literature suggests that major donors use their funding to refocus international organizations’ attention away from their core mandate and toward serving donors’ geostrategic interests. We investigate this claim in the context of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), examining whether donor influence negatively impacts mandate delivery and leads the organization to direct expenditures more toward recipient countries that are politically, economically, or geographically salient to major donors. Analyzing a new dataset of UNHCR finances (1967–2016), we find that UNHCR served its global mandate with considerable consistency. Applying flexible measures of collective donor influence, so-called “influence-weighted interest scores,” our findings suggest that donor influence matters for the expenditure allocation of the agency, but that mandate-undermining effects of such influence are limited and most pronounced during salient refugee situations within Europe.

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