The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees of 1951 and the Protocol thereto of 31 January 1967, whose definition of a refugee has been included in European Union asylum law, does not accord protection to a new class of refugees who are a direct result of globalization. Using Uganda (refugee reception country) and Eritrea (refugee sending country) as prime case studies, the empirical claim in this study is that economic liberalization has become a serious form of economic persecution which international law should take into consideration when defining who is entitled to international refugee protection. This is because the emergence of ‘economic refugees’ is arguably a direct result of globalization, a phenomenon not anticipated by the Refugee Convention. Economic refugees are thus labelled as undeserving and yet most refugees and asylum seekers hail from countries where economic failure, political instability, poverty, and persecution are indissolubly linked. The hesitancy in international practice and Refugee Status Determination (RSD) procedures to consider other forms of harm is further complicated by the blurred lines between the categories of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees. This research project draws on interdisciplinary and methodological perspectives which takes into account the social, political and economic factors causing human displacement so as to achieve the following objectives. First, the project will develop a model framework protocol to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees with an expanded refugee definition. The second objective is to prescribe principles of burden-sharing as enunciated in the Global Compact on Refugees as a way to stop secondary displacement in the refugee camps.