Other authors and scholars would be made reference to where necessary.
Setting the Scene.
As suggested by scholars like Loescher (1996, pp 11-92; 2001 pp21-81) and (Erika, 2001; Labman, 2009), the issue of refugee crisis is old wars and conflicts around the world-from Europe to the Balkans, to the old Soviet Union, Asia, to the Americas and to Africa, the story of wars and conflicts can never be divorced from the associated mass refuge crisis. In the past, refugees were welcome in some countries as a means of boosting the economy of their hosts but not anymore as can be experienced with the trends in the contemporary refugee movement.
The first conscious attempt at the international level to solving refugee problems started in 1921 when the first High Commissioner for Refugees was appointed by the League of Nations. The League of Nations itself was formed in the aftermath of the first world in 1919. But as the number of refugees and the nature of conflicts that triggers mass refugee movements continued to change in manner and in intensity, the challenges faced by the High Commissioner correspondingly became compounded. These challenges manifested in connection with the issues of identity and travel documents, and regularization of not only refugees but stateless persons. These continued until the Second World War era. .
After the Second World War, the development of the international refugee protection regime continued to gather momentum irrespective of difficulties. The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (UNRRA) established in 1943(and dominated by the USA influence and made up of 44 signatories) and the International Refugee Organisation formed in 1946 played crucial but controversial roles. That notwithstanding, they nevertheless were working progress towards the development of the refugee protection framework as they served as precursor and provided the need foundation to the 1951 universally acclaimed international refugee protection regime .