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IDS Working Paper 553

The Right to Protection of Forcibly Displaced Persons During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Published on 6 August 2021

The unprecedented shutdown of borders and restrictions on migration in response to the Covid-19 pandemic have put the core principles of refugee protection to test and resulted in the erosion of the right to asylum and violations of the principle of non-refoulment.

Covid-19 is being used by some governments as an excuse to block people from the right to seek asylum and implement their nationalist agendas of border closures and anti-immigration policies.

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Rohwerder, B. (2021) The Right to Protection of Forcibly Displaced Persons During the Covid-19 Pandemic, IDS Working Paper 553, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, DOI: 10.19088/IDS.2021.052

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Institute of Development Studies
doi
10.19088/IDS.2021.052
isbn
978-1-78118-840-8
issn
2040-0209
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English

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