Taiwan's Road to an Asylum Law: Who, When, How, and Why Not Yet?

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Human Rights Review Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Epub Date: 2022-01-10 DOI:10.1007/s12142-021-00644-y
Kristina Kironska
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Abstract

Taiwan is considered to be one of the most progressive countries in Asia but has no asylum law. Does it need one? Many in Taiwan, including officials and politicians, claim that the regulations that are currently in place are sufficient. There are, however, some people in Taiwan who require protection, and the government is not able to respond effectively in the absence of an asylum law. The author has identified several different groups in Taiwan that would benefit from an asylum law - from Hong Kong protesters facing persecution, through Chinese dissidents or descendants of the ROC army from the Thai-Myanmar border region, to Turkish people with revoked passports; grouped into two major categories - persons from the PRC, Tibet, Hong Kong, and Macau (group 1) and persons from other countries (group 2). The draft of the asylum law has been sitting in the Parliament for 14 years, and the reason for it not yet having passed is the "China Factor." The Taiwan-China relationship thus cannot be disconnected from this issue, and the article discusses the three most common concerns with regard to this in the Taiwanese society. While these are legitimate concerns, they could be solved by adopting a dual asylum system dealing with group 1 and group 2 separately. Compared to UN member countries, Taiwan is on its own when it comes to the asylum issue, although adopting an asylum law is part of a broader push to bring Taiwan's legal system in line with international human rights law. The article provides a comprehensive description and analysis of the refugee situation in Taiwan; it is based on document studies and interviews conducted in Taipei in autumn 2020.

台湾的庇护法之路:谁、何时、如何、为什么还没有?
台湾被认为是亚洲最进步的国家之一,但没有庇护法。它需要一个吗?台湾的许多人,包括官员和政界人士,声称目前的规定已经足够了。然而,台湾有一些人需要保护,在没有庇护法的情况下,政府无法有效应对。作者确定了台湾几个不同的群体将从庇护法中受益——从面临迫害的香港抗议者,到来自泰缅边境地区的中国异见人士或中华民国军队后裔,再到护照被吊销的土耳其人;分为两大类——来自中华人民共和国、西藏、香港和澳门的人员(第一组)和来自其他国家的人员(第二组)。庇护法草案在国会已经有十四年的历史,尚未通过的原因是‘中国因素’,因此,台湾与中国的关系不能脱离这一问题,本文讨论了台湾社会最普遍的三个问题。虽然这些都是合理的担忧,但可以通过分别处理第一组和第二组的双重庇护制度来解决。与联合国成员国相比,台湾在庇护问题上只能靠自己,尽管通过庇护法是使台湾法律体系与国际人权法保持一致的更广泛努力的一部分。文章对台湾难民状况进行了全面的描述和分析;它是基于2020年秋季在台北进行的文献研究和采访。
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CiteScore
2.70
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14.30%
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22
期刊介绍: Human Rights Review is an interdisciplinary journal which provides a scholarly forum in which human rights issues and their underlying empirical, theoretical and philosophical foundations are explored. The journal seeks to place human rights practices and policies within a theoretical perspective in order to link empirical research to broader human rights issues. Human Rights Review welcomes submissions from all academic areas in order to foster a wide-ranging dialogue on issues of concern to both the academic and the policy-making communities. The journal is receptive to submissions drawing from diverse methodologies and approaches including case studies, quantitative analysis, legal scholarship and philosophical discourse in order to provide a comprehensive discussion concerning human rights issues.
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