Post date: May 5, 2014 11:43:56 PM
Last time, I researched laws about refugees in foreign countries (including actual scene.) Also, I wanted to compare with Japanese laws that my research partner, Hidetoshi prepared before the class. But we couldn’t do that because of the cancellation of the class. So we are going to do next time.
I picked up U.S. and French refugee laws to compare with the Japanese one. I thought intuitively they were kind of refugees because they were composed of many immigrants. U.S. seems to be correct with my intuition. According to the website of Refugee Council USA, U.S. has the policy of admitting refugees of special humanitarian. The U.S. government established the Refugee Act in 1980 by amending the Immigration and Nationality Act. This act defines refugee and standardizes the resettlement services.
How about France? The policy becomes tighter. In 1990, the French government tightened control to deporting those who stayed illegally after refused asylum (New York Times, 1991),. The writer said France is no longer an open door to prospective travelers.
Next week, I am going to research the relationship between new refugees (e.g. Syria) and refugee laws or policies in each country and compare with Japanese situation in class.
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