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Asylum And Inspections Reform, Katherine L. Vaughns Oct 2012

Asylum And Inspections Reform, Katherine L. Vaughns

Katherine L. Vaughns

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Smuggling Of Asylum-Seekers And Criminal Justice, Vladislava Stoyanova May 2012

Smuggling Of Asylum-Seekers And Criminal Justice, Vladislava Stoyanova

Vladislava Stoyanova

The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the legal implications for asylum-seekers flowing from their resort to falsified documents as a method of gaining access to the territory of asylum countries. Article 31(1) of the Refugee Convention is supposed to act as a shield against punishment for illegal entry. However, the paper identifies four issues relating to the application of Article 31 which make the functioning of the shield difficult. The first issue relates to the procedure of applying Article 31 and in particular the interrelationship between the refugee status determination procedure and the criminal procedure initiated as a …