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Title: THE ROLES OF TRADITION AND CULTURE IN THE APPLICATION OF REFUGEE AND ASYLUM LAWS IN GERMANY AND SAUDI ARABIA
Authors: Olawale Lawal
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Olawale Lawal PhD. Political Science (Ibadan), Dept. of History and International Studies, Lagos State University.
MLA 8 Lawal, Olawale. "THE ROLES OF TRADITION AND CULTURE IN THE APPLICATION OF REFUGEE AND ASYLUM LAWS IN GERMANY AND SAUDI ARABIA." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 5, no. 4, Apr. 2020, pp. 960-970, ijsser.org/more2020.php?id=70. Accessed Apr. 2020. APA(6) Lawal, O. (2020, April). THE ROLES OF TRADITION AND CULTURE IN THE APPLICATION OF REFUGEE AND ASYLUM LAWS IN GERMANY AND SAUDI ARABIA. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 5(4), 960-970. Retrieved from ijsser.org/more2020.php?id=70 Chicago Lawal, Olawale. "THE ROLES OF TRADITION AND CULTURE IN THE APPLICATION OF REFUGEE AND ASYLUM LAWS IN GERMANY AND SAUDI ARABIA." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 5, no. 4 (April 2020), 960-970. Accessed April, 2020. ijsser.org/more2020.php?id=70.
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Abstract: International protection law in recent times has assumed the status of customary international law - a framework which confers almost universal compliance to her provisions. However, states' sovereignty retains yet some level of freedom during domestication of international law. This observation is the funnel through which states' tradition and culture interfere in the application of international protection law. This paper examines the roles of culture and tradition in the application of refugee and asylum laws of two asymmetric states, namely the Federal Republic of Germany and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This is a comparative study of two dissimilar societies that face the same refugee challenge in the Syrian crisis. The responses of these states to the influx of refugees from Syria reflect a trajectory that is being dictated primarily by the values of the people but the international protection law only ape their responses in a fundamental way. The work is observatory and exploratory in nature. To get to the roots of this research, information is gathered from news items relating to how these two countries have been responding to the Syrian refugee crisis. Various secondary sources of information on the management of refugees by these two countries are also gathered to give context and content to the research. Finally, sources of refugee laws of these states are examined along the provisions of international protection law. The paper concludes that Germany and Saudi Arabia respond to international protection law within the framework offered by their respective values, culture and tradition.

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