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The legal process of allocating entitlement to international protection for migrants.
Legal Processes, International Protection, and Immigration Control
While asylum is by definition a migration-related concept, the notion of human rights is applicable to a variety of contexts. In relation to migrants and migration, human rights issues can be raised both in connection to the physical and legal act of migration and also to the conditions in which migrants find themselves once having arrived in their host nation. In relation to this latter point, a number of studies have shown that migrants find themselves particularly vulnerable to human rights infractions as a result of state policies and their precarious position in host societies (see, e.g., Dembour and Kelly 2011; Benhabib 2005; Nash 2009). With regard to the former, the concepts of asylum and human rights can be considered together as essentially legal frameworks followed by states for formally recognizing and...
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Southerden, T. (2015). Asylum and Human Rights. In: Bean, F., Brown, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Migration. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6179-7_33-4
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