But there has always been another, much smaller, group of asylum-seekers – those individuals forced to flee their home countries by persecution, often on religious or ethnic grounds. The 1951 United Nations Convention on Refugees recognized a right of asylum for those unable to return to their country of origin owing to a “well founded” fear of persecution.
但永远有作为人数小得多的他者的寻求避难人群——这些个体因为迫害（通常是宗教和宗族迫害）而被迫逃离祖国。1951年《联合国难民公约》承认由于“理由充分”地担心迫害而无法回归祖国的人拥有避难权。