ABSTRACT
According to Noiriel, across the Western world from first World War, a new paradigm emerged in the control of immigration. The paradigm that Noriel describes applies to the structure of international refugee law, as it has developed since the 1951 Convention; the basis for the justification of all liberal democracies in rejecting asylum-seekers. The ad hoc and rudimentary arrangements of the 1920s were followed by more formal and far-reaching attempts to create a system of international refugee law with the 1933 Convention. As the central instrument of international refugee law, the 1951 Convention is the subject of much discussion. This chapter focuses on completing the narrative of international refugee law's birth, by discussing the preoccupations that were instrumental in its drafting. Some scholars, described how United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and other NGOs organisations have in fact facilitated the process of maintaining refugees as passive recipients of aid and subjects of control.
