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APPENDIX B: DEFINITION OF AND USAGE OF "REFUGEE“
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Under the 1951 UN Convention Relating to the Status
of Refugees, as amended by the 1967 Protocol Relating to
the Status of Refugees, the term "refugee" is defined as
meaning any person who, owing to well-founded fear of
being persecuted for reasons of race, religion,
nationality, membership of a particular social group or
political opinion, is outside the country of his
nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, unwil-
ling to avail himself of the protection of that country;
or who, not having a nationality and being outside the
country of his former habitual residence, is unable or,
owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it.
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Although it is clear that economic deprivation per se
would not support a claim to refugee status under these
intruments it is probable that there are a number of
groups among the current exodus from Indochina who could
eg ethnic
present a case on the grounds specified
ecified, eg,
minorities who have fled from Laos and Vietnam, the
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