Non-arbitrarily Expulsion of Foreigners and its Application under Cameroonian Law

Abstract

The protection of foreigners’ right in any given society is an essential factor in preserving and respecting the identity and dignity of such persons. In order to protect foreigners’ status and rights, there is that necessity for the country in question to implements its laws through the enhancement of it's competent institutions vested with powers in protecting these foreigners taking up residence in their respective territories. The State of Cameroon has contributed immensely in ensuring that laws enacted for the protection of foreigners entering,, staying, and exiting its territory should be offered some degree of implementation when dealing with foreigner’s rights and status. These respected laws put into place will not only be a ground for human right protection of foreigners’, but also act as a tool in enhancing proper implementation of such laws enacted even though some lapses can be identified in the laws. Enacting laws, conceiving policies, and creating institutions to enhance and protect foreigners is one thing, implementing, and enforcing these laws is another. The government of Cameroon is responsible for the protection of foreigners residing in their territory by providing the foreigners that maximum protection in all spheres of necessities. The foreigner should be able in enjoying a minimum protection while residing it the territory, and under no circumstance should such a person be expelled arbitrarily by the country of resident without any justifiable cause. This paper thus analyses that though the government of Cameroon has initiated and embraced laudable efforts in seeing that those residing in its territory are given that maximum protection and prohibiting all manners of expulsion of such persons, there are lots of discriminatory practices experienced which have thus provoked some aspect of arbitrarily expulsion of foreigners in Cameroon.