This week on the Inside Geneva podcast, we answer questions from our listeners about migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees.
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Our listeners asked us the following questions: What\u2019s the difference between asylum seekers, stateless populations, and undocumented migrants? How does third country resettlement work? Does the United Nations Refugee Agency, or the International Organization for Migration, have the power to prosecute countries if they violate their obligations to UN conventions?
Podcast host Imogen Foulkes is joined by experts to provide answers on a topic that is often controversial.
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\xa0\u201cRefugees are forced to leave their countries because of war, conflict and human rights violations. Basically, their lives are in danger,\u201d says Shabia Mantoo, spokesperson for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
\u201cMost people don\u2019t want to leave. They leave because they feel like there\u2019s no other option but to leave,\u201d says Paul Dillon, spokesperson for the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
\u201cYou just can\u2019t push back people at borders if they\u2019re seeking international protection. They need to be afforded that right to seek asylum,\u201d says Mantoo.
\u201cThe conversation is toxic, divisive, and dangerous. Those conversations are not really fact-based, they\u2019re emotive,\u201d says Dillon.
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