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, and not to acknowledge this principle is to deprive ourselves of their assistance.,,43 Rawls adds an additional and persuasive justification, the pervasive effect of the duty on the quality of everyday life: The public knowledge that we are living in a society in which we can depend upon others to
Rights in EU Law (Oxford: Hart Pub, 2002). 25 Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers, Social Europe 11 90, 46, Articles 1,2,3 in particular, but other provisions in this document are also rel- evant in relation to the quality of the life of a migrant worker. In contrast the
violence resulting in seek- ing asylum abroad, as well as poverty, unemployment, and substandard living conditions which prompt persons to migrate in search of a better life. Here too, the issue of asylum-seeking must be analysed within the context of broader migration movement. The linkages between
Chapter 2 Description of the Situation A. Background of Refugee Crises of Iraq 1. The Kurds of Iraq In the first days of April 1991, network TV news programmes came to life with scenes of mass displacement. The screen was domi- nated by pictures of tens of thousands of Kurds in flight out of Iraq
to the practical consequences of European citizenship on national life. It will depend on the evolution of the power strug- gles between the security agencies at a trans-national level where internal and external security is in a process of merging. Some basic questions are obscured by the public
. 2 The environment is degraded; the soil has become decreasingly fertile. The country is steeped in poverty. Hundreds of thou- sands of people are living in desperate conditions, without adequate shelter or access to land. How this came to pass is a complex history of population move- ments
Article 33(1) of the Refugee Convention, which pro- hibits states to ‘refouler’ a refugee to the frontiers of territories where her life or freedom would be threatened on account of her race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is commonly taken to
transitional administration while establishing and overseeing the development of provisional democratic self-governing institutions to ensure conditions for a peaceful and normal life for all inhabitants in Kosovo." Preamble and paragraph 10. Although the resolution does not specify the goal of this
avoiding the effect of ’ UK immigration law. Whatever the terminology, a broad conception of such marriages is prob- lematic. It is trite to observe that many successful marriages in many cultures are motivated by pragmatism.5 English fiction has long debated the factors that should determine a decision
to expel a refugee . . . in any manner whatsoever to the frontiers of territories where his life or freedom would be threatened on account of his race, reli- gion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.26 164 Chapter 4 27 Guy Goodwin-Gill, op. cit., p. 72. 28 Guy