# Should Refugees Claim Asylum in the First Safe Country?

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Leslie Thomas KC
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Society and politics, Law
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/should-refugees-claim-asylum-first-safe-country)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Professor Leslie Thomas KC interrogates the argument that refugees who come to the UK over land and have travelled through a number of ostensibly safe European countries on the way here should have claimed asylum in one of those countries, rather than travelling on to the UK. Clip from the longer lecture: Refugees: English Law's Protection or Persecution?

## Lectures

1. [Should Refugees Claim Asylum in the First Safe Country?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/should-refugees-claim-asylum-first-safe-country/f96089242c50) (YouTube)