Beyond Asylum: The Regularization of Populations Displaced by War and Conflict

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Asylum was the primary legal mechanism for providing humanitarian protection to people fleeing conflict since the development of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. However, following a rise in global displacement and mixed migration patterns, states have used regularization programs to grant legal status to displaced populations who fall outside formal refugee recognition. Using comparative cases drawn from the Migrant Regularization Archive and Data (MiRADa) project, this talk will discuss the varied use of these tools across regions, as well as the broader implications of their use for migration governance and international refugee protection. 

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