> The right to internal movement in the host country, as well as the right to family reunification and the right to transit back and forth from the host country to their country of origin. [...] A Tale of Two Contexts has two policy objectives: (a) First, it explores the literature in relation to the types of individuals in need of humanitarian assistance that are produced by immigration policies, and the type of rights and access to state provisions granted to these individuals through the legal pathways of securing entry into the host country. [...] The basic international agreement stipulating the rights of refugees and obligations to them is the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (hereafter 1951 Refugee Convention) and the associated Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees (hereafter 1967 Protocol). [...] The Convention and the 11 Protocol provide the most widely recognized definition of a refugee, as someone, who “owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that. [...] The literature reviewed identified the following dimensions of integration in terms of the needs of the refugee groups: housing, access to the labour market, health care, and education.
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- 54
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- United Kingdom
