Publication: Refugees In Malaysia: Issues And Importance Of A Better Legal Management For Refugees
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2022
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Academia Industry Networks
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This paper mainly explores the concept of refugee from the Islamic perspective. The discussion encapsulates the definitions of ‘refugee’, the position of refugees under international law and how Islam views refugees and the treatment they deserve. This article adopts a qualitative analysis via an exploratory approach, mainly employing library research of the primary and secondary sources of reference on the subject, and findings from an engagement with an Islamic authority in Malaysia conducted on 13th October 2020. This paper are divided into three parts, the first part differentiates perceptions of refugees from the Islamic and Western worldviews, including the international law that applies to refugees. The second part explains the definition and provides an overview of history of refugee acceptance in Malaysia. The third part explains the crisis and problem arising among the refugees in Malaysia, which call for a paradigm shift in the way such groups are positioned and treated within the local framework of laws and policy. It is hoped that by enlightening some responsibilities of the State which has agreed to provide refuge for these people on humanitarian basis, the leaders and the host community would treat them in a better right-respecting way.
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Cairo Declaration, fundamental liberties, refugees, rights of refugees, crisis of refugees.