POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: European Migrant Crisis, Refugees Of The Syrian Civil War, Convention Relating To The Status Of Refugees
26 Apr 2016
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Monday, january 18, 2016 the ight of refugees around the world. Hannah arendt and forced migration: the decline of the nation-state and the end of the rights of man, a displacement in inter-war europe, the decline of a nation state, forced migration of interwar europe. Traditional methods of asylum were not used because of the huge amount of refugees. Governments feared that by assimilating them into a state it would further denationalize them. Incentive to avoid the costs of taking in the refugees. Criminalizing refugees so that they don"t have to take them in: eg spanish refugees in france. The loss of membership: after the world war, europe"s boarders redrawn, individuals who didn"t have any citizenship became widespread across europe. No rights: the right to have rights. The fundamental deprivation of human rights is manifested rst and above all the deprivation of a place in the world which makes opinions signi cant and actions effective : international protection.
