Questions
1.1 A migrant is a person who makes a conscious choice to leave their country to
seek a better life elsewhere. They are free to return home at any time if things don’t
work out as they had hoped, if they get homesick or if they wish to visit family
members and friends left behind.
Refugees are forced to leave their country because they are at risk of or have
experienced persecution. The concerns of refugees are human rights and safety, not
economic advantage
1.2 Requirements of a refugee status is that if (a) he or she is unable or unwilling to
avail himself or herself of the protection of his or her country due to a well-founded
fear of persecution by reason of his or her race, gender, tribe, religion, nationality,
political opinion or membership of a particular social group, or (b) he or she is
compelled to leave his or her place of habitual residence to seeks refugee in another
country due to external aggression or other events seriously disturbing public order
in his or her country, or (c) is a spouse or dependant of a person contemplated in
paragraph (a) or (b), Thabo qualifies for refugee status and will granted an Asylum
1.1 A migrant is a person who makes a conscious choice to leave their country to
seek a better life elsewhere. They are free to return home at any time if things don’t
work out as they had hoped, if they get homesick or if they wish to visit family
members and friends left behind.
Refugees are forced to leave their country because they are at risk of or have
experienced persecution. The concerns of refugees are human rights and safety, not
economic advantage
1.2 Requirements of a refugee status is that if (a) he or she is unable or unwilling to
avail himself or herself of the protection of his or her country due to a well-founded
fear of persecution by reason of his or her race, gender, tribe, religion, nationality,
political opinion or membership of a particular social group, or (b) he or she is
compelled to leave his or her place of habitual residence to seeks refugee in another
country due to external aggression or other events seriously disturbing public order
in his or her country, or (c) is a spouse or dependant of a person contemplated in
paragraph (a) or (b), Thabo qualifies for refugee status and will granted an Asylum
