• DOI:10.1080/19962126.2005.11865141
Corpus ID: 142864431

Extending the limits or narrowing the scope? Deconstructing the OAU refugee definition thirty years on

@article{Rankin2005ExtendingTL,
  title={Extending the limits or narrowing the scope? Deconstructing the OAU refugee definition thirty years on},
  author={Micah B. Rankin},
  journal={South African Journal on Human Rights},
  year={2005},
  volume={21},
  pages={406-435}
}

Micah B. Rankin

Published 2005

Political Science

South African Journal on Human Rights

The Organisation of African Unity (OAU) Refugee Convention is recognised as having extended the conventional concept of a refugee beyond the narrower scope of the 1951 Refugee Convention. Yet, while the OAU definition of refugee has been praised for its broader scope, relatively little effort has been made to subject it to a rigorous interpretative analysis. Instead, scholarship has tended to minimise a number of serious interpretive difficulties posed by the definition. The result is an… CONTINUE READING

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