Comments by "Valen Ron" (@valenrn8657) on "Father of Drowned Syrian Boy Describes His Sorrow" video.
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+murni rohayu They were living in Turkey (the 1st safe country) for number years with rent being paid by the Father's sister.
What is a refugee
The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (the 1951 Refugee Convention) is the key international legal document defining who is a refugee, their rights and the legal obligations of countries that are signatories to the 1951 Refugee Convention.[1] Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Refugee Convention defines a ‘refugee’ as:
a person who is outside his country of nationality or habitual residence
has a well-founded fear of persecution because of his race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion, and
is unable or unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country, or to return there, for fear of persecution.[2]
A Convention ‘refugee’ is different from an ‘asylum seeker’ because the former has had their asylum claims assessed and been found to satisfy the above definition. This assessment can be done by a country that has acceded to the 1951 Refugee Convention or by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). There is no such thing as a ‘genuine refugee’. A refugee by technical definition is simply someone who has been recognised as satisfying the above Convention definition. Further, a person is a refugee within the meaning of the 1951 Convention as soon as they satisfy the above definition. This might actually occur before their refugee status is formally determined by a country or the UNHCR. Refugee status is therefore declaratory in nature—in that a refugee does not become a refugee because they have been recognised to be one but rather, they are recognised because they are a refugee.[3]
1951 Refugee Convention refers to person's safety not picking 2nd or 3rd country with perceive better economic conditions than the first safe country, hence "economic queue jumpers" for those who didn't stay in the first safe country.
1951 Refugee Convention has morphed into something else that caused open border/uncontrolled border policy which effectively overridden the nation's sovereignty.
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