Refugee Law In The Global South: Why India And Africa Resist The 1951 Convention

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Analysis examines why India and African nations resist the 1951 Refugee Convention, highlighting the legal pluralism in refugee administration.

India and Africa reject the 1951 refugee convention, developing alternative refugee policies instead.
The rejection stems from the Eurocentric framework and limited refugee definitions of the convention.
India utilizes an ad hoc policy model, while Africa pursues the broader OAU convention for refugee solutions.
The analysis critiques insufficient resources and political instability which hinder effective refugee protection.

Pandey et al. (2025) studied this question.

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Analysis examines why India and African nations resist the 1951 Refugee Convention, highlighting the legal pluralism in refugee administration.