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Why is it important?
One of the greatest challenges of our times is to recognize that people are on the move and have been throughout human existence, and manage this safely and legally. How states define the term "refugee" and determine whether to grant refugee status to an individual or family needs to be re-examined and re-defined in terms of today's reality, not only through the lens of post-World War II Europe and the treaty definition adopted at that time.
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While teaching at the law school of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Porto Alegre, Brazil,Laura Madrid Sartoretto, a graduate student in the doctoral program, and I began long discussions of the issues of migration and refugees. Now a professor herself, and a lawyer for Haitians, Syrians and others arriving in Brazil and seeking refugee status, Laura is involved in Brazilian legal developments in accord with the Cartagena Declaration. Her work combined with mine on the European Migration Agenda of 2015 through my committee of the New York City Bar Association led to our joint article.
Dr. Catherine J. Tinker
Seton Hall University School of Diplomacy and International Relations
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This page is a summary of: NEW TRENDS IN MIGRATORY AND REFUGEE LAW IN BRAZIL: THE EXPANDED REFUGEE DEFINITION, Panorama of Brazilian Law, January 2015, Panorama of Brazilian Law,
DOI: 10.17768/pbl.a3.n3-4.p143.
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