International Refugee Law and the Right to Nationality: Legal responses to the Rwandan refugee crisis in Uganda
Published: 1/Oct/2014
Source: University College Cork
By Marshall Godfrey ALENYO
Thesis submitted for Masters of Law (LLM) International Human Rights and Public Policy
The objective of this thesis is to highlight the interaction between international refugee law and the right to a nationality with particular focus on the access to citizenship by Rwandan refugees and their descendants in Uganda. Most of these refugees have, after years of sojourn, developed social and economic ties to Uganda, which renders it impossible to leave the country of asylum. It also creates a need to find a solution for their continued stay beyond refugee status. Under International refugee law, local integration into the community is a durable solution. Among others, it provides for assimilation and naturalisation as an end to refugee status and beginning of a new chapter of citizenship in the host country.
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