ABSTRACT
Since institutional channels of political participation remain mostly foreclosed to refugees, the spaces for political voice outside institutional channels are all the more important. In that regard, the chapter examines how law is relevant for those non-institutional channels of political participation. It underlines how law is relevant not only to formal entitlements but also secures the possibilities to contest boundaries of those entitlements. Hereby, the freedom of assembly and the freedom of association are central. Referring to those two rights jointly as associative rights, the chapter considers their guarantees in international law and the differing scope of guarantees in state constitutions. On that basis, the chapter reflects on the relationship of refugeehood with associative rights. Moreover, it discusses how rules of refugee law might interfere with the exercise of these associative rights, especially in conditioning refugees’ freedom of movement within a host state.
