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| Asylum Law |  Asylum law is another law that has been around, literally, for ages. Its aim is to outline the situations in which an individual or group is persecuted by their home country for their ideas or politics, usually dissenting form the current regime in their country, and who then takes asylum under the protection of a sovereign authority, such as another country.
This is not immigrant law. It concerns the right of asylum as opposed to immigrant law. And the last concerns huge group of people coming into a country. Often, the seekers of asylum, or protection, are considered rebels or dissidents in their own countries and are not safe. Thus they migrate to a different country that offers them protection. However, the two do sometimes overlap, as an immigrant may demand to be treated as an asylum case, and is sometimes granted that right.
Nevertheless, asylum law has general legalities surrounding it. But it really functions on a case-by-case basis like any other type of law. There are treaties called "extradition treaties." More recently, they have been signed by different countries giving the home country of the asylum-seeker the right to demand their return, and the asylum-giving country, according to such a treaty, would have to obligate.
Nonetheless, though these treaties may be signed between nations, international law says that a country does not have to surrender the asylum-seeker, often considered a criminal in their home country, to their country of origin. The reason is that the principles defining a sovereign state, wherein the people or within the borders of a sovereign state are subject to the sovereign state's authority.
This law is different in each nation, and some may be stricter than others. Different countries may vary widely in how they put the law into effect. This is because of its nature and the important role sovereign states play in asylum laws.
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