Document Type : Original Article
Author
PhD in Public Law, University of Tehran
Abstract
Citizenship is a legal relationship between citizens and the government, based on membership in a political system through citizenship. Citizenship rights are a set of rights and privileges that are granted to citizens in the legal system of a country. These rights have been established equally for all citizens and guarantee the protection of their rights against the encroachments of the government and other powerful social groups and classes. According to the Convention on the Status of Refugees, a refugee is a citizen who stays outside the country he was previously in to escape or fear racial, religious, ethnic and national persecution, or to be a member of a particular social group or have political opinions. And he is deprived of the support of his home state, and on the other hand, since he does not have the citizenship of the refugee-receiving country, he is deprived of the rights of citizenship in that country. Of course, the refugee's deprivation of citizenship rights in developed countries is different from developing countries. This research with descriptive-analytical method seeks to answer the question that in a situation where refugees have the same citizenship rights as others in the host countries, do refugees have the desire to return to their countries of origin? The findings of the research indicate that in a country where refugees can enjoy the rights of citizens to enjoy a decent life, regardless of whether the conditions that caused their displacement have disappeared or not, they tend to stay.
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