Safe Third Country

Eleni Karageorgiou

Chapter 88 in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Migration and Asylum Law, 2025, pp 513-518 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The safe third country (STC) notion rests on the idea that a protection seeker can be denied access to substantive asylum procedures in a particular country on the grounds that they could or should have requested protection elsewhere. Despite the absence of an explicit legal basis in the Refugee Convention, STC arrangements have been extensively applied both in international and in regional contexts. Examples include the Dublin system in the European Union, the US-Canada Agreement, the EU-Turkey Statement, the US Migrant Protection Protocols, and the Australian law and practice. STC practices have been criticized for shifting protection responsibilities to geographically specific states contrary to the principle of international solidarity and for containing refugees close to regions of origin, subjecting them to substandard protection and poor reception conditions.

Keywords: Safe third country; Protection elsewhere; Access to asylum; Effective protection; Transfer of responsibility; International solidarity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781802204148
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