SOSC 2351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: United Nations General Assembly, Nationstates, International Refugee Organization
20 Dec 2016
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Being a refugee means having a particular status: refugees are special kinds of foreigners who can be defined by the peculiar interactions they have with states, which are distinct from other state-individual relations. They are neither inter-state relations, nor state- citizen relations. Globally speaking, the simpler definition of what being a refugee means is someone who has been compelled to abandon his home. The geneva convention (1951) and the geneva protocol (1967): they render the states responsible for protecting refugees, and they oblige them to guarantee civil and social rights to refugees. Until the french revolution, there was this notion of fugitives: protection was given on a private basis by those who were empathic enough to identify with the persecuted. Temples and churches were often utilized to give protection to fugitives, there were sanctuaries and served as shelters for people escaping violence and state"s penalties. During the interwar period (1918-1939), the refugee was often a russian opponent of.
