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Categories of Status in Canadian Refugee Law
From: Refugee Law 2/e
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This chapter examines the categories established in and relevant to the operation of Canadian refugee (and, more broadly, immigration) law. The legislation distinguishes three broad categories of persons — foreign nationals, permanent residents, and citizens — each of which
enjoys different rights in Canada. The chapter primarily focuses on the subcategories of foreign national and how these subcategories affect the rights of those seeking protection in the most essential spheres of their lives such as procedural rights, right to work and study, social assistance, legal aid, and medical coverage.
Contributors
Sasha Baglay
Sasha Baglay (LLB, Kiev National Economic University; LLM in Comparative Constitutional Law, Central European University; LLM, Dalhousie University; PhD, York University) is an Associate Professor of Legal Studies at the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, University of Ontario Institute of Technology; and an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. She has written and presented on various issues of Canadian and comparative immigration and refugee law and policy. In 2009–10, she was president of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies.
Martin Jones
Martin Jones (BA Hons, Queen’s University; LLB, University of British Columbia) practised as an immigration and refugee lawyer in Canada for seven years. During that time he represented more than one thousand immigrants and refugee claimants in all stages of the immigration and refugee protection process. Currently, Martin is a senior lecturer in international human rights law at the Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York (UK). He has previously taught and served as a visiting researcher at Osgoode Hall Law School (Canada), Queen’s University (Canada), the Centre for Refugee Studies (Canada), the University of East London (UK), Georgetown University (US), the University of Michigan (US), the American University in Cairo (Egypt), and the University of Melbourne (Australia). Martin has widely presented and published on various topics in refugee and migration law.
