HUM 2395 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Convention Relating To The Status Of Refugees, Statelessness, Refugee Action
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Un high commission on refugees- as of june 2016. More refugees are people that are displaced. Becoming a refugee is a permanent change in their status for the most part because you can"t return to your hometown due to feeling out of place. Arendt: right to have right depends on citizenship rather than any doctrine of universal human rights, which vest rights in individuals merely on account of their humanity. It follows that the stateless person is also at risk of losing his or her humanity. Zygmunt bauman: part of the issue is the way in which the political world is framed and understood. As long as europe remains the only modern continent of the planet, its redundant populations kept being unloaded onto the still pre-modern lands- recycling into colonist settlers, soldiers or members of colonial administration. A lot of countries got rid of ethnic minorities. Today we are experiencing, the largest amount of refugee action since wwii.
