Origin country expert Nassim Majidi lays out the definitions of terms such as refugee, asylum-seeker, and migrant. Can migrants be classified into neat categories? Should they be?
1. Refugees, Migrants, Asylum-Seekers: Who Are They?
Every refugee is first a migrant
No universally agreed upon legal definitions
Refugee is a legal status given through process of claiming asylum
Right to work
Right of movement
1951 UN convention
Laws and conventions versus in-practice definitions