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In the realm of refugee protection it is necessary to have a new approach in mitigating the crisis that is conventionally the voluntary repatriation, third country resettlement and local integration. The basic structure of a national refugee law for India drawn up here will be able to confer moral and legal strength to India to maintain a dialogue for better protection considering history, cultural development and the Global North–Global South divide.
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The European Parliament is the law-making body of the EU. It is directly elected by European voters every 5 years with legislative, supervisory and budgetary responsibilities.
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The European Council brings together EU leaders to set the EU’s political agenda. It represents the highest level of political cooperation between EU countries.
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In the Council, government ministers from each EU country meet to discuss, amend and adopt laws, and coordinate policies. Together with the European Parliament, the Council is the main decision-making body of the EU.
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The European Commission is the EU's politically independent executive arm. It alone is responsible for drawing up proposals for new European legislation, and it implements the decisions of the European Parliament and the Council of the EU.
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See B.S. Chimni, ‘Status of Refugees in India: Strategic Ambiguity’ in Ranabir Samaddar (ed), Refugee and the State: Practices of Asylum and Care in India, 1947–2000 (SAGE, New Delhi 2003) 443.
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Lok Sabha, Un-starred Question No. 277, Answered on 21.02.2006 (for detailed discussion on this, see Section 3.1.1.1 in Chapter 3 ).
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See Asha Hans, ‘Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees in India’ [1993] 13(3) Refuge 30, 31; see generally P.N. Luthra, ‘Problem of Refugees from East Bengal’ [1971] 6(50) Economic and Political Weekly 2467, 2470.
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See J.N. Saxena, ‘Legal Status of Refugees: Indian Position’ [1986] 26 Indian Journal of International Law 501, 505.
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See Myron Weiner, ‘Rejected Peoples and Unwanted Migrants in South Asia’ [1993] 28(34) Economic & Political Weekly 1737, 1740.
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See B.S. Chimni, ‘The Geopolitics of Refugee Studies: A View from the South’ [1998] 11(4) Journal of Refugee Studies 350, 360.
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M. Chossudovsky, ‘Economic Reforms and Social Unrest in Developing Countries’ [1997] Economic & Political Weekly 1786, 1787.
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Chimni (n 10) 362; see also B.S. Chimni, ‘The Meaning of Words and the Role of UNHCR in Voluntary Repatriation’ [1993] 5 International Journal of Refugee Law 442, 445.
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See A. McGrew, ‘Democracy Beyond Borders? Globalization and the Reconstruction of Democratic Theory and Politics' in A. McGrew (ed), The Transformation of Democracy (Cambridge, 1997) 231, 265; J.P. Hocke, ‘Beyond Humanitarianism: The Need for Political Will to Resolve Today's Refugee Problem’ in G. Loescher & L. Monahan (eds), Refugees and International Relations (Oxford, 1989).
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Chimni (n 10) 362.
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‘Model National Law on Refugees’ [2001] 19 ISIL Yearbook of International Humanitarian and Refugee Law, http://www.worldlii.org/int/journals/ISILYBIHRL/2001/19.html accessed 19 March 2015.
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The Asylum Bill, No. 334 of 2015 (India), Introduced in Lok Sabha by Dr. Shashi Tharoor, MP; The National Asylum Bill, No. 341 of 2015 (India), Introduced in Lok Sabha by Feroze Varun Gandhi, MP; The Protection of Refugees and Asylum Seekers Bill, No. 290 of 2015, Introduced in Lok Sabha by Rabindra Kumar Jena, MP.
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For detailed discussion see Section 3.2 in Chapter 3 .
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For detailed discussion see Section 2.2 and Section 2.4 in Chapter 2.
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For detailed discussion see Section 1.3.3 in Chapter 1.
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See Sections 7.2.1, 7.3.1 and 7.5.1 in Chapter 7 for detailed discussions.
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See Section 5.3 in Chapter 5.
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See Probodh Saxena, ‘Creating Legal Space for Refugees in India: the Milestones Crossed and the Roadmap for the Future’ (2007) 19 International Journal of Refugee Law 246, 260.
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For further discussion of the concepts of “first country of asylum” and “safe third country,” see Section 5.4.2 in Chapter 5.
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See Sections 7.2.3, 7.3.3, 7.5.3 in Chapter 7 for detailed discussions.
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See Saxena (n 2) 264.
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See Sections 7.2.2, 7.3.4, 7.5.2 in Chapter 7 for detailed discussions.
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B.S. Chimni, ‘The Legal Condition of Refugees in India’ [1994] 7 Journal of Refugee Studies 378, 400.
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See Chimni (n 10) 363.
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See Chimni (n 10) 369.
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See B.S. Chimni, ‘The Birth of a ‘Discipline’: From Refugee to Forced Migration Studies’ [2009] 22(1) Journal of Refugee Studies 11, 17.
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Sarker, S.P. (2017). The Call for a New Law. In: Refugee Law in India. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4807-4_8
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