DEFENDING
DEMOCRACY IN EXILE
Policy Responses to
Transnational Repression
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Fatima Khan and Nandi Rayner, “Country Fiche: South Africa,” ASILE - Global
Asylum Governance and the European Union’s Role, October 2020, https://
www.asileproject.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Country-Fiche_SouthAfrica_Final_Pub.pdf.
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Fatima Khan and Nandi Rayner, “Country Fiche: South Africa,” ASILE - Global
Asylum Governance and the European Union’s Role, October 2020, https://
www.asileproject.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Country-Fiche_SouthAfrica_Final_Pub.pdf.
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Fatima Khan, Siphokazi Mbatani, and Charlotte Marais, “Trusting Democracy:
The Law Can Work For Refugees But What The System Needs Is An ‘Injection
Of Humanity’” Journal of Asian and African Studies 56, no. 1 (2021): 48-63,
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0021909620946850.
United Nations, “UNHCR And The Government Pledge To Clear The Asylum
Backlog By 2024,” July 17, 2021, https://southafrica.un.org/en/136315-unhcrand-government-pledge-clear-asylum-backlog-2024; United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees, “Work To Revamp The Asylum System Begins
In South Africa,” March 8, 2021, https://reliefweb.int/report/south-africa/
work-revamp-asylum-system-begins-south-africa.
Learn more about transnational repression and view the full report online
by visiting www.freedomhouse.org/report/transnational-repression.
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