List of Footnotes
1 | NUTS stands for Nomenclature of Units for Territorial Statistics | |
2 | According to the Geneva Convention on refugees, “refugee” is defined: “As a result of events occurring before 1 January 1951 and owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable, or owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country” (UN, 1950). Some ratification were made to this convention, and in 1966 the refugee status was changed and expanded to every one who was being persecuted, by omitting the words “As a result of events occurring before 1 January 1951 and...” and“...as a result of such events” (UN, 1966) |