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Nikolas Feith Tan
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Nikolas Feith Tan

Nikolas Feith Tan is a Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights and a Senior Research Affiliate at the Refugee Law Initiative. He holds a PhD in international law and teaches in the fields of international human rights and refugee law. He has acted as a consultant for Amnesty International, the Danish Refugee Council, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on various aspects of international protection.

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Reports
February 2023
External Processing: A Tool to Expand Protection or Further Restrict Territorial Asylum?
By  Pauline Endres de Oliveira and Nikolas Feith Tan

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Reports
February 2023

External Processing: A Tool to Expand Protection or Further Restrict Territorial Asylum?

As asylum systems in many countries have come under considerable strain in recent years, there has been renewed interest in external processing—that is, conducting part or all of an asylum procedure outside a destination country’s territory. Some countries have pursued this to deter spontaneous arrivals, but as this report explores, others are using various external processing models to expand access to protection.