Question

Benhabib says that international law, including international human rights law, is more or less feckless when it comes to migrant labourers, asylum seekers, and other challenges to the governance of cross-border movements. Do you agree? Disagree? Why? Note that, historically, refugees have had no legal right to sanctuary, only the right to request sanctuary.

Answer 1

A refugee is a person who has fled their own country because they are at risk of serious human rights violations and persecution there. The risks to their safety and life were so great that they felt they had no choice but to leave and seek safety outside their country because their own government cannot or will not protect them from those dangers. Refugees have a right to international protection.

An asylum-seeker is a person who has left their country and is seeking protection from persecution and serious human rights violations in another country, but who hasn’t yet been legally recognized as a refugee and is waiting to receive a decision on their asylum claim. Seeking asylum is a human right. This means everyone should be allowed to enter another country to seek asylum.

migrants leave their country because they want to work, study or join family, for example. Others feel they must leave because of poverty, political unrest, gang violence, natural disasters or other serious circumstances that exist there.Governments must protect all migrants from racist and xenophobic violence, exploitation and forced labour. Migrants should never be detained or forced to return to their countries without a legitimate reason.

No I won't agree, The rights of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers are protected by international law, regardless of how and why they arrive in a country. They have the same rights as everyone else, plus special or specific protections including:

1.According UHRD article 14 states that Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
2. This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and
principles of the United Nations.

3.The 1951 UN Refugee Convention (and its 1967 Protocol), which protects refugees from being returned to countries where they risk being persecuted.

Considering The Sanctuary Movement held in US The Reagan administration officials explained that most of these people are mostly seeking prosperity than refuge, and that it would therefore be foolish to grant them all asylum. These applicants live are in endangered in their homelands by civil strife and govt sponsored death squads. Church in Tucson declared they provide sanctuary for central American refugees, more than 200 churches are involved and provided sanctuary provided them with transportation away from border areas, housing food and all necessary needs in finding them employment, by these several universities towns declared themselves sanctuaries. refugees have had no legal right to sanctuary, only the right to request sanctuary.but they provided.