Fear of Witchcraft, State Protection and Internal Relocation in Nigeria - Obasi, R (on the Application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2007] EWHC 381 (Admin)
by Katia Bianchini
Question(s) at stake
Whether it was correct for the Secretary of State to certify the claimant’s asylum claim as clearly unfounded on the grounds that (1) the state of origin would afford the claimant sufficient protection; and (2) internal relocation was possible.
Outcome of the ruling
The Secretary of State was correct, and the appeal was refused.
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Obasi, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2007] EWHC 381 (Admin)
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Keywords:
Failure of State protection Grounds/Reasons of persecution Membership of a particular social group Refugee status Religion or belief Asylum seeker Internal relocation alternative
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Katia Bianchini (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Department Law and Anthropology, Germany)
Katia Bianchini is a Research Fellow of the Law and Anthropology Department of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle. She holds a law degree from the University of Pavia (Italy), an LL.M. in Comparative Laws from the University of San Diego (California, USA), and a Ph.D. in Law from the University of York (UK). Her doctoral thesis provided an empirical and legal analysis of how the 1954 UN Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons is implemented in ten EU states. She has also worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen). Before engaging in research, she practised immigration and refugee law for ten years in the UK and the USA.
Bianchini has published in the field of refugee law, statelessness, and the rule of law in the context of sea migration. Her current research builds on her expertise in human rights and Italian law and looks at the treatment of deceased sea migrants in the South of Italy.