Refugee Policies of Council of Europe
Refugee Policies of Council of Europe

Author(s): Furkan Yıldız
Subject(s): Migration Studies, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Migration Series; EU; ILO; immigrants; international organisations; international policy; ITO; migration policy; NATO; refugee crisis; refugee law; refugees; UN; UNHCR;
Summary/Abstract: While, in international law, the refugee occupies a legal area implied by the principle of state sovereignty and the related principles of superiority and self-protection; on the other hand, it competes with humanitarian principles of general international law.1 Apart from legal dimension, refugee issue has a humanitarian aspect. According to the numbers of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, there are 79.5 million people worldwide forcibly displaced at the end of 2019. Almost 33% (26 million) of total number of forcibly displaced people is refugees and 5.25% (4.2 million) of the total number is asylum-seekers.2 In this regard, the humanitarian dimension of the issue is as important as its legal and political dimensions.

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