Publication

Mar 2017

What’s the danger of mixing up legal definitions of a refugee and a migrant? After reviewing the ongoing competition between inclusivist and residualist views on what a migrant is, this brief’s author then warns that the fierce promotion of the residualist approach by refugee advocates could undermine the very protections forcibly displaced people need.

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Author Jørgen Carling
Series PRIO Policy Briefs
Issue 2
Publisher Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Copyright © 2017 Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
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