International law defines a refugee as someone who ‘owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race

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International law defines a refugee as someone who ‘owingto a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race,religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, orpolitical opinion, is outside the country of his nationality […]’(from the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees). Arethere any problems with this definition? How do you think a refugeeshould be defined? read Refugees: The politically oppressed of Felix Bender