The Intersection of Statelessness and Refugee Protection in US Asylum Policy
Executive Summary More than ten million people are stateless today. In a world of nation states, they live on the margins without membership in any state, and, as a consequence, have few enforceable legal rights. Stateless individuals face gaps in protection and in many cases experience persecution that falls within the refugee paradigm. However, US … Continue reading The Intersection of Statelessness and Refugee Protection in US Asylum Policy →
Theorizing Refugees, Borders, Il/legality: Nation-State-Exceptions
Refugees, asylum seekers, illegal migrants, exiles, nomads, aliens
others.These are all in-between figures, exceptions to a political order defined by citizenship, borders, sovereignty and nation states. In their very existence, these figures represent a challenge to this political order, as social and political theorists have long recognized.For example, Hannah Arendt deemed stateless people the most symptomatic … Continue reading Theorizing Refugees, Borders, Il/legality: Nation-State-Exceptions →
