POL101Y1 Lecture 3: PoliSci Lecture 3
Document Summary
Arendt (important scholar on the topic of forced migration) Unhcr: just under 60 million persons of concern (internally displaced, stateless or a refugee-like situation) Internally displaced people are refugees within their own country (dr congo is a big example of this, but for functional purposes it"s hardly a state) Developing countries have been hosting up to 85% of global refugees. Of 19 million global refugees, only 100,000 were admitted for resettlement in 2014 (the rest are either stuck in limbo, or take the dangerous trek to a western nation to seek asylum and declare refugee status) Decline of the nation-state and the end of the rights of man (book written by arendt, herself a german jewish refugee) arendt points to. 2 conditions for global refugee low (1. deep tension in the development of a nation-state as a form of community) post ww1 minorities treaties (partitioning of africa, middle east and eastern. Europe, led to states that mean nothing ex.
