Questions tagged [complementary-protection]
Questions about refugee-like programs that do not strictly fit under the 1951 Refugee Convention. These include "subsidiary protection" in the EU, temporary protected status (TPS) in the USA, etc.
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How does subsidiary protection differ from Convention-refugee status in terms of concrete rights granted?
Why did the EU adopt another terminology (i.e. subsidiary protection) for non-1951-Convention refugees? Does subsidiary protection confer fewer right in practice than refugee/asylum status under the ...
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Were most of the Salvadorans granted TPS in 1990 staying legally or illegally in the US before that?
Salvadorans are currently the largest group of TPS holders in the United States, although the Trump administration has decided to no longer extend their status, a decision that resulted in a court ...
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Who has the power to designate new countries for TPS (temporary protected status)?
VOA news on January 17, 2019:
Amid a deepening crisis and mass exodus from Venezuela, bipartisan legislation was unveiled Thursday to provide temporary protected status (TPS) to Venezuelan nationals ...
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Is there a group that the Trump administration has (re)designated for TPS?
In a story from last year:
The Trump administration will let 6,900 Syrians who had been allowed to live and work in the US because of dangerous conditions in their home country remain in the US for ...
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Has the US government adopted the extended UNHCR definition of refugee?
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As of 2011, the UNHCR itself, in addition to the 1951 definition, recognizes persons as refugees:
"who are outside their country of nationality or habitual residence and ...
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How did the extended UNHCR definition of refugee come about?
According to Wikipedia:
As of 2011, the UNHCR itself, in addition to the 1951 definition, recognizes persons as refugees:
"who are outside their country of nationality or habitual ...
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Why do we call the Syrian refugees refugees?
According to the legal definition of being a refugee, a refugee is someone who "owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular ...
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