POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: European Migrant Crisis, Statelessness
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Internationally displaced person: forced to flee their home but who remains within their country"s borders. Statelessness: the lack of any nationality or the absence of a recognized link between an individual and any state. Many of the world"s poorest countries host the most refugees. The decline of the nation-state and the end of the rights of men- hannah arendt. Wrote from her own experiences of forced migration during ww2 when she was a idp. Any attempts to integrate refuges would only promote the decline of denationalization. Making it easier for refugees to be taken in would make the burden of the state larger. The absence of an uncoordinated system provided a problem. No legal framework for dealing with people stripped of their citizenship status. The fundamental deprivation of human rights is manifested first and above all in the deprivation of a place in the world which makes opinions significant and actions effective.
