Indigenous refugees, vulnerability and cultural erosion: international law of indigenous peoples’ and international refugee law’s possibilities and limits in the protection of indigenous cultural expressions related to traditional land and the native language

The purpose of this article is to verify whether the legal frameworks international refugee law and indigenous peoples are able protect groups in situations refuge, guaranteeing their cultural specificities, particularly those related link with traditional land language as expressions way organizing reality. Thus, it seeks investigate protection norms that meet specificities available referred frameworks. First, a concept deduced from definitions contained studies instruments. Next, obligatory density applicable rules analysed, especially found soft Then, proceeds analysis how specific conditions refugees affect expressions, seeking identify could them. With regard land, assessed uprooting insertion, under precarious conditions, urban contexts, during refuge situation, process its application, threatens original culture. As for language, investigated situation which person subjugated can lead linguistic erosion even extinction host State. It concluded that, despite existence offer some type protection, they insufficient guarantee preservation due deep vulnerability such condition.