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2023-01-31
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International protection in cases of forced displacement in Spain

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22490/26655489.6218
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Jenny Alexandra Ocampo Castaño Universidad Libre Seccional Pereira
Elena Mut Montalva Universidad de Valencia

Colombia has extensive regulatory development on the subject of internal forced displacement, but when it comes to external or transnational forced displacement there are legal gaps and difficulties in the processes of comprehensive reparation for
victims who are abroad, especially in the cases of women human rights defenders. In addition, in Colombia there is an invisibility of political exile. The objective of this research has been to know the right to international protection in cases of forced external displacement and the differential impacts that this type of violence has on the economic, social and political life of the women activists who belong to the Women’s Collective. Colombian Refugees, Exiles and Migrants in the city of Valencia Spain. The methodology of
this qualitative research has been based on two main techniques. The first has consisted of documentary analysis and bibliographic review on the right to international protection in Spain and the normative development of forced displacement in the Colombian legal system from the perspective of gender in law. The second
technique has consisted of carrying out semi-structured interviews with the members of the Collective of Colombian Refugee, Exiled and Migrant Women in the city of Valencia, Spain. As a result, it has become evident that there are gaps in public policies and international protection policies in Spain and Colombia to address cases of forced displacement abroad. In turn, these legal gaps come from international human rights law itself, because it has developed a concept of refuge, asylum and subsidiary protection with an androcentric approach.