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Family reunification within the refugee context: Is South Africa meeting its International, regional, constitutional and legal obligations towards refugees?

The refugee experience is such that it is common for family members to be separated from each other before or during their flight from the country of origin. In the face of persecution, families adopt strategies, some of which may necessitate temporary separation: sending a politically active adult...

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Main Author: Khan, Fatima
Other Authors: de la Hunt, Vla
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Department of Private Law 2023
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description The refugee experience is such that it is common for family members to be separated from each other before or during their flight from the country of origin. In the face of persecution, families adopt strategies, some of which may necessitate temporary separation: sending a politically active adult into hiding, helping a son escape forcible recruitment by militia forces, sending abroad a woman at risk of attack or abduction. Family members may be forced to take different routes out of the country or to leave at different times as opportunities permit. It is therefore also common for refugees to be unaware, often for long periods, whether a family member is alive or dead. The commonality of the experience does not in any way detract from the pain and anxiety felt by those separated from close family members.
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spelling oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/38299 Family reunification within the refugee context: Is South Africa meeting its International, regional, constitutional and legal obligations towards refugees? Khan, Fatima de la Hunt, Vla private law The refugee experience is such that it is common for family members to be separated from each other before or during their flight from the country of origin. In the face of persecution, families adopt strategies, some of which may necessitate temporary separation: sending a politically active adult into hiding, helping a son escape forcible recruitment by militia forces, sending abroad a woman at risk of attack or abduction. Family members may be forced to take different routes out of the country or to leave at different times as opportunities permit. It is therefore also common for refugees to be unaware, often for long periods, whether a family member is alive or dead. The commonality of the experience does not in any way detract from the pain and anxiety felt by those separated from close family members. 2023-08-28T10:32:24Z 2023-08-28T10:32:24Z 2006 2023-08-25T07:46:34Z Master Thesis Masters LLM http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38299 eng application/pdf Department of Private Law Faculty of Law
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Family reunification within the refugee context: Is South Africa meeting its International, regional, constitutional and legal obligations towards refugees?
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title Family reunification within the refugee context: Is South Africa meeting its International, regional, constitutional and legal obligations towards refugees?
title_full Family reunification within the refugee context: Is South Africa meeting its International, regional, constitutional and legal obligations towards refugees?
title_fullStr Family reunification within the refugee context: Is South Africa meeting its International, regional, constitutional and legal obligations towards refugees?
title_full_unstemmed Family reunification within the refugee context: Is South Africa meeting its International, regional, constitutional and legal obligations towards refugees?
title_short Family reunification within the refugee context: Is South Africa meeting its International, regional, constitutional and legal obligations towards refugees?
title_sort family reunification within the refugee context is south africa meeting its international regional constitutional and legal obligations towards refugees
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