Refugeehood and Rights
A Theoretical Debate
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7368197 |
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| Authors | Leonardo Barros Da Silva Menezes (0000-0003-1022-8730, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Issue | 96 |
| Pages | 1-22 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Revista Brasileira de Informação Bibliográfica em Ciências Sociais (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1516-8085 • E-ISSN: 2317-6644 |
| Publisher | ANPOCS (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.17666/bib9605/2021 |
| OpenAlex | W3216543647 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
To which rights refugees are entitled? In this paper, I analyze the many challenges that two interrelated theoretical traditions of Refugee Studies have implicitly posed to one another. First, I examine the analytic philosophers’ assumption that we cannot understand the nature of a refugee claim until we know what entitles an individual to make it – i.e., what root cause for displacement could explain, and justify, such status. Second, after examining Critical Citizenship Studies, I mainly discuss a renewed Arendtian tradition whose cosmopolitan claim has advocated granting the right of citizenship to all forced displaced persons. By demonstrating why each response leaves room for strong rebuttals from the other side, I make clear the urgency of rethinking today’s international refugee regime as well as the place of political theory in it
Citizenship · Displacement (psychology · Epistemology · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Refugee · Refugee law · Sociology · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Psychology · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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