Right to Leave and to Return

Nora Markard

Chapter 86 in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Migration and Asylum Law, 2025, pp 503-507 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Freedom of movement is essential for refugees and other migrants. While many international instruments protect the right to leave any country and the right to return to one's own, they pointedly refrain from protecting a right to enter. But for those who cannot stay where they are, the right to leave secures access to non-refoulement and to the right to seek asylum. The right to return to one's own country, on the other hand, is a right to come home – to the country of nationality, but also to other countries that have become home.

Keywords: Persecution; Freedom of movement; Non-refoulement; Sovereignty; Palestinians; COVID-1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781802204148
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