safe third country
Refugee transit nation
Safe third country is a legal designation for a nation where asylum seekers can be returned because it's deemed capable of providing protection.
Under such agreements, refugees who pass through a safe third country before reaching their destination may be sent back there to pursue their claim.
The concept is controversial—critics argue it shifts responsibility for refugees to poorer nations and ignores conditions on the ground: The policy treats Mexico as a safe third country, but is it?
- asylum applicationsRequests for protective immigration status
- asylum seekerOne requesting official protection
- Geneva ConventionWartime humanitarian law treaties
- resettlement programsOrganized refugee placement efforts
- neighboring countriesNations sharing a boundary
refugee camps · reception center · human smuggling · bilateral agreements · moral obligations · Dublin · inadmissibility · transit · border crossing · diplomatic negotiations · legal representation · immigration court · conflict zones · forced displacement · deportation · visa restrictions · travel ban · stateless
- immigrationimmigrant, immigrants, visa, refugee, citizenship
- migrationmigration, immigrants, refugees, immigration, emigration
- asylumasylum seekers, asylum application, asylum claims, asylum claim, asylum case
- refugeesrefugee camps, refugee camp, displaced persons, refugee status, refugee policy