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Wiki Education assignment: HIST 432 2025

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 6 January 2025 and 8 April 2025. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Shandroe, VeritasViolet (article contribs).

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Safe third country (final version) received a peer review by Wikipedia editors, which on 15 April 2025 was archived. It may contain ideas you can use to improve this article.

VeritasViolet (talk) 00:20, 15 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Safe third country

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I've listed this article for peer review because numerous significant edits have been made in order to expand upon the topic and to save the page from being a stub. Looking for any insights on new sections or existing text.

Thank you, VeritasViolet (talk) 00:26, 15 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Article has some verifiability issues. The very first sentence you edited to claim that the concept is found in international law, which is not supported by the cited source and to the best of my knowledge is not true. In the body of the article, you added text in the "Legal Interpretation" stating that it is disputed whether the practice of relying on "safe third countries" is compliant with international law. You also claim that it's applied worldwide, which is also neither true nor supported by any cited source. Indeed, the safe third country designation is only used by wealthy, Western countries. (t · c) buidhe 01:29, 15 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Seems a bit odd that the "Controversies and debates" section doesn't mention probably the #1 controversy, which is that the designation of "safe third countries" leads people to be deported to countries where they are not actually safe or put in prolonged limbo because the "third country" doesn't want them back.

The article may be somewhat biased in favor of the concept. When I looked for recent Google Scholar results, the top 3 were:

“Safe Third Country” Democratic Responsibility and the Ends of International Human Rights by Paul Linden-Retek
"On ‘Safety’ and EU Externalization of Borders: Questioning the Role of Tunisia as a “Safe Country of Origin” and a “Safe Third Country”"[1]
"Unpacking the Safe Third Country Concept in the European Union: B/orders, Legal Spaces, and Asylum in the Shadow of Externalization" [2]

It appears there is missing context on the harms of these policies. (t · c) buidhe 01:37, 15 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

@VeritasViolet@Buidhe because this article has been expanded 5x it is eligible for Wikipedia:Did you know. To nominate it see Template talk:Did you know. This should be done by March 21, a week after the expansion. Good luck Yeshivish613 (talk) 22:44, 17 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]