This article challenges the assumption that until relatively recently refugees or persons with lived refugee experience have not been involved in the development of international refugee law and policy. By drawing on primary source material – including the preparatory work for international legal instruments such as the 1933 Convention relating to the International Status of Refugees and the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, along with the operational work of the League of Nations, the International Refugee Organization and the early years of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees – this article argues that refugees and persons with lived refugee experience exercised significant influence and thought-leadership in the development of international refugee law and policymaking during the foundational years between 1921 and 1955. These contributions to the development of international refugee law and policy are significant because they not only reorient our understanding of the ways in which international law and policy pertaining to refugees has been developed and negotiated to date, but also because they provide a practical example of how refugees can more meaningfully be included in the creation of laws and policies that affect them going forward.

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重新审视难民参与：难民对早期国际难民法律和政策的贡献

本文挑战了这样一种假设，即直到最近，难民或有难民经历的人还没有参与国际难民法律和政策的制定。通过利用主要来源材料——包括国际法律文书的准备工作，如 1933 年《关于难民国际地位的公约》和《1951 年关于难民地位的公约》，以及国际联盟的业务工作，