Socio-Economic rights and refugee status : challenging the scope of protection to be provided by the refugee convention : a critical analysis of the european solution

The main questions to be answered are (i) whether the scope of protection to be provided by the concept of persecution of the Refugee Convention can include persons whose claims rely on a deprivation of socio-economic rights on return to their country of origin, and (ii) if this is the case could socio-economic deprivation as such be considered as a valid ground for asylum in Europe? The first research question aims at establishing the scope of protection under the Refugee Convention, focusing on the specific meaning of persecution. My more specific goal is to examine how the regime of protection under the European Asylum Law accommodates this evolution — in other words how it reacts to migrants founding theirs claims for asylum on socio-economic deprivation —, in order to understand whether the European Union has found the best way of giving effect to the Refugee Convention (and one that can be considered as a working definition)