Immigrants are people fleeing from His country to another country where it can be referred to as a refugee or asylum seeker. There is a legal instrument that regulates and provides protection against them. Arrangements for asylum seeker contained in the Declaration of Territorial Asylum, 1967, State practice, humanitarian issues, the Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). While the arrangements for refugee contained in the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees 1951 Protocol Relating to the status of Refugees in 1967, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). Relating to the protection of the law against Syrian immigrant applies equally to immigrants from other countries as stipulated in the regulation that has been in the set. Countries in the European Union to implement the protection of international human rights law against Syrian immigrants who are in the countries of the European Union with consistent as in mandated in the European Convention on Human Rights, Convention applying the Schengen Agreement dated June 14, 1985, Lisbon treaty, Dublin II Regulation (Council Regulation (EC) 343/2003) in 2003. the indications there are some countries in the European Union such as Greece, Hungary who reject and do not want to take more responsibility for the country 'duties associated with the provisions of international human rights law to provide protection to Syrian immigrants in Europe.
Imigran adalah orang yang melarikan diri dari Negaranya ke Negara lain di mana dapat disebut sebagai pengungsi atau asylum seeker. Terdapat instrumen hukum yang mengatur dan memberikan perlindungan terhadap mereka. Pengaturan bagi asylum seeker terdapat pada Declaration of Territorial Asylum 1967, praktek Negara, persoalan kemanusian, Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Sedangkan pengaturan bagi pengungsi terdapat pada Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees 1951, Protocol relating to the status of Refugees 1967, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). Terkait dengan perlindungan hukum terhadap imigran Suriah berlaku sama terhadap imigran dari Negara lainnya sebagaimana diatur dalam pengaturan yang telah di atur tersebut. Negara-negara di Uni Eropa mengimplementasi perlindungan hukum HAM internasional terhadap imigran Suriah yang berada di Negara-negara Uni Eropa dengan konsisten sebagaimana di amanatkan dalam European Convention on Human Rights, Convention applying the Schengen Agreement tanggal 14 Juni 1985, Lisbon treaty, Dublin II Regulation (Council Regulation (EC) 343/2003) tahun 2003. Indikasinya ada beberapa Negara di Uni Eropa seperti Yunani, Hungaria yang menolak dan tidak mau mengambil tanggung jawab lebih terhadap kewajibannya selaku Negara yang terkait dengan ketentuan hukum HAM internasional untuk memberikan perlindungan terhadap imigran Suriah di Eropa.