Asylum Seekers and Human Rights |
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Authors: | Edwards John |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Social and Political Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 OEX, UK |
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Abstract: | Asylum seekers, by their very circumstances, test our common assumptions and practice in relation to human rights. The treatment
of asylum seekers in many European countries has become harsher, more restrictive and less tolerant in recent years, raising
questions about the violation of their rights. The article examines the bases of the rights that asylum seekers do have and
whether these are best supported as human rights or more limited rights that attach to the place of their temporary residence
and to obligations made by their country of temporary residence. Given the propensity of receiving countries to afford increasingly
limited rights, the article identifies a limited set of rights that should take priority in a hierarchy of rights and which
might claim widespread acceptance as those which asylum seekers must enjoy.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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Keywords: | asylum seekers autonomy correlative duties human rights social rights |
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