RIGHT OF REFUGEES BETWEEN LAWS, HUMAN SECURITY AND STATE SECURITY: THE CASE OF SYRIAN REFUGEES

Abstract

Refugees are people who forced to leave their homeland due to persecutions and insecurity, Syrians are one of them. The sudden nexus of large scale of refugees in hosting states like Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq has created challenges in protecting them, at the beginning of the influx receiving states didn‘t expect that they would stay for a long time and becoming protracted refugees which affect their existence as host states didn‘t prepare to manage this crisis. The situation of Syrian refugees in both Lebanon and Turkey in countries that are not considered Syrians as refugees but displaced people in the first and guests in the second, was ambiguous, in Lebanon the government has ignored their existence, no formal camps, no regulations in addition of violations that breach all the agreement that the country signed, even if Lebanon is not a party in the Geneva Convention 1951 there is couple of other international agreements that oblige the country to abide with international customs and some rights. Turkey is a member of the convention and the protocol 1967, so it considered only Europeans as refugees, Syrians have stayed without regulations until 2014 when temporary protection was established which organize their existence, some violations have taken place that also infringes international agreement and customs of which Ankara is a member. The thesis highlights the right of refugees in international law and in the national law of both countries to conclude that even if a country is not a member of the Geneva Convention 1951 there are a range of other international agreement and customs that force it to provide and protect their basic rights, and in many cases countries are also breaching their laws. The policy and the direction of government has a big impact in the existence and rights of refugees in the receiving states, moreover the state concerns and security have affect refugee rights, when politicians and leaders consider vulnerable iv as a threat following with hate speeches it creates racism and increases tensions between both communities, so refugees fled aiming security but they discover that they are facing a different kind of insecurity in the receiving states.