Taiwan’s Road to an Asylum Law: Who, When, How, and Why Not Yet?

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12142-021-00644-y" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12142-021-00644-y</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12142-021-00644-y" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12142-021-00644-y</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Taiwan’s Road to an Asylum Law: Who, When, How, and Why Not Yet?

Original language description

Taiwan is considered to be one of the most progressive countries in Asia but has no asylum law. Does it need one? Many in Taiwan, including officials and politicians, claim that the regulations that are currently in place are sufficient. There are, how- ever, some people in Taiwan who require protection, and the government is not able to respond effectively in the absence of an asylum law. The author has identified several different groups in Taiwan that would benefit from an asylum law — from Hong Kong protesters facing persecution, through Chinese dissidents or descendants of the ROC army from the Thai-Myanmar border region, to Turkish people with revoked passports; grouped into two major categories — persons from the PRC, Tibet, Hong Kong, and Macau (group 1) and persons from other countries (group 2). The draft of the asylum law has been sitting in the Parliament for 14 years, and the reason for it not yet having passed is the “China Factor.” The Taiwan-China relation- ship thus cannot be disconnected from this issue, and the article discusses the three most common concerns with regard to this in the Taiwanese society. While these are legitimate concerns, they could be solved by adopting a dual asylum system dealing with group 1 and group 2 separately. Compared to UN member countries, Taiwan is on its own when it comes to the asylum issue, although adopting an asylum law is part of a broader push to bring Taiwan’s legal system in line with international human rights law. The article provides a comprehensive description and analysis of the refugee situation in Taiwan; it is based on document studies and interviews con- ducted in Taipei in autumn 2020.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50403 - Social topics (Women´s and gender studies; Social issues; Family studies; Social work)

Project

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Continuities

O - Projekt operacniho programu

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Human Rights Review

ISSN

1524-8879

e-ISSN

1874-6306

Volume of the periodical

23

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

"241–264"

UT code for WoS article

000741561600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85122877152