REFUGEE LAW IN SAARC NATIONS: A NEW APPROACH ON

LAW AND MORALITY

ABSTRACT

While hosting more than three million refugees SAARC not only continues to ignore compliance
with international legal instruments but also doesn’t have any national framework for managing
refugees. The lack of national policies is being compensated through vague and changing
morality based on humanitarian grounds. This paper attempts to analyze the historical trends
while accepting refugees by the SAARC nations on the outline of morality. With its own logics
and unique practices, South Asia continues to be a generous region in relation to refugees – a
trend which has recently changed.

It is in this conspectus, the instant research critically and cumulatively tries to examine
protection and its thresholds afforded to climate refugees along with conventional refugees under
international legal standards and state practices of the SAARC nations. This paper attempts to
figure out the need for a concrete law for regional cooperation in SAARC to replace the
changing morality which differs from case to case.

The researcher in this paper attempts to study the relationship that exists between law and
morality with reference to REFUGEE CRISIS in SAARC countries. The Researcher has
followed doctrinal methodology for undertaking this research, and has collected the materials
from various books, articles and websites.

KEY WORDS: Law, Morality, Refugee, SAARC Nations, Climate change, Climate refugee,
International morality & Soft law.