Forced Population Transfers, Mass Expulsions, and Migration: The Law and its Claw

20 Pages Posted: 1 Aug 2018

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Nafees Ahmad

South Asian University-New Delhi; South Asian University-New Delhi

Date Written: July 13, 2018

Abstract

Human inception with autochthonic affinities coated in political proclivities harbingered and vouched for exclusivity of ethnicity, race,and religion in every part of the world. But civilizations have been interacting, intermingling andintermixingever since the people have accomplished the art of movements from one place to another by utilizing and developing the transport technologies of all kinds. However, in the contemporary circumstances, humanity is at war per se that pandered to a catena of causes of population movements across the human spectrum. Population transfers, expulsions, and forced migrations that take place in inconsistent conditions and a wide diversity of circumstances at the moment are coordinatedby a convoluted hodge-podge of legal labyrinth comprising the IHRL—International Human Rights Law, IRL— International Refugee Law, IHL—International Humanitarian Law, and IDL—International Development Law.The population transfer is allowed only in rare and restricted circumstances, with the standards of lawful transfer determined by explicit or implicit prohibitions contemplated predominantly in IHRL and IHL.

Keywords: BALKANS, CYPRUS, HUMAN RIGHTS, INTERNATIONAL LAW, REFUGEE CRISIS, TURKEY

Suggested Citation

Ahmad, Nafees, Forced Population Transfers, Mass Expulsions, and Migration: The Law and its Claw (July 13, 2018). Blackstone Journal for Asia-Africa Jurists Research Paper No. 32132811, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3213281 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3213281

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