Kuwait: Could a person born who was born in Kuwait of a Palestinian father, and later moved to Bahrain, return to Kuwait, or to Bahrain?
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 June 1990 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | KWT5829 |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Kuwait: Could a person born who was born in Kuwait of a Palestinian father, and later moved to Bahrain, return to Kuwait, or to Bahrain?, 1 June 1990, KWT5829, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6aac61c.html [accessed 30 May 2023] |
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Enclosed please find references from the U.S. State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1989 regarding the freedom of movement in Bahrain (pp. 1340-1341) and Kuwait (p. 1460-1461). Kuwait does not recognize or grant refugee status and this holds true for Palestinians, according to World Refugee Report (September 1988), p. 41.
In Hurst Hannum, The Right to Leave and Return in International Law and Practice, (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1987), the section on the Middle East mentions that the "freedom to leave does not always correspond to the possibility of leaving, and economic circumstances prevent the great majority of people... from exercising their right to leave" (p. 107). The same source mentions Bahrain as being one of the Middle Eastern countries which attempts to limit emigration (p. 107). Appendix B of the same source states that Article 17(c) of the 1973 Constitution of Bahrain, and Article 28 of the 1962 Constitution of Kuwait (partially suspended in 1976) are provisions guaranteeing the right to leave and/or return (pp. 139-140).
No further information about this subject could be found among the sources currently available to the IRBDC.
