Need for a National Legislation on Refugees in India at 75

Abhinav Mehrotra and Chhaya Bhardwaj
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Abhinav Mehrotra: Abhinav Mehrotra is a Lecturer at O.P. Jindal Global University and holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Leeds. He can be reached at amehrotra@jgu.edu.in
Chhaya Bhardwaj: Chhaya Bhardwaj is an Assistant Professor at O.P. Jindal Global University and holds an LLM in Environmental Law from the Vermont Law School. She can be reached at cbhardwaj@jgu.edu.in

India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs, 2022, vol. 78, issue 2, 297-317

Abstract: In this article, the authors highlight the need for refugee legislation in India while India celebrates its 75 years of independence. India should have domestic legislation to uniformise legal and conceptual understanding of refugees, to uniformise the procedural standards for all refugees without discrimination, to address the increasing influx of refugees due to increase in conflicts in the neighbouring geography such as Afghanistan and Myanmar and due to increasing threats of sea-level rise and de-territorialisation.

Keywords: Refugees; refugee status determination; climate change; sea-level rise; international law; international human rights law (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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