Who is a refugee?

Why is a refugees different from other migrants? The first definition of who is a refugee was provided by the the Refugee Convention, signed in Geneva in 1951. Nowadays that definition is still working; consequently all the grounds considered by that formulation must be verify every time an asylum-seeker ask for International Protection.

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