Budz awarded fellowship to study refugee and asylum policy
Budz awarded fellowship to study refugee and asylum policy
- May 30, 2008
- Research findings show policies may lead to violence as governments attempt to balance human rights and security concerns
Michele Budz, seventh year political science graduate student, has received an $18,000
fellowship to support her research on international refugee and asylum policy.
Using examples from W
WII to the present, her study will take her to Australia where she plans to interview
policy makers and conduct research on the country's 2001 incident in which several
hundred Afghan and Iraqi refugees were denied entry to Australia's Christmas Island
after being rescued at sea by a Norwegian ship. Budz argues that the country's
actions and subsequently enacted policies from others in the international community
that deny refugees entry to the closest port of rescue violate humanitarian rights
and protection laws. Through her research, she plans to prove how such policies ultimately
lead to unnecessary violence as governments attempt to balance human rights and security
concerns. Budz's study is funded by the University of California Institute on
Global Conflict and Cooperation and will cover a one year period beginning fall 2008.
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