CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Puscas, Ioana Maria |
|---|---|
| Title | PEOPLE, SOVEREIGNTY AND THE STATE. POLITICIZING REFUGEE ISSUES DURING THE COLD WAR AND BEYOND |
| Summary | The present thesis focuses on the way refugees, as humans outside a particular political community, fit into an inter-state system for which the trinity state-nation-citizen acquired a normative value. Two main objectives will be pursued. Firstly, the thesis will show how the location of refugees in the political discourse highlights the difference between citizen and man, as the fundamental conflict that undergirds the modern system of states. Taking into consideration the way the identity of the refugee was shaped and politicized during and after the Cold War, it becomes obvious that refugee issues have not been treated as a unitary category. Different definitions and approaches existed in parallel and, accordingly different types of relations between the refugee and the sovereign power. Secondly, and closely related to the first point, the thesis will show how the refugee condition can indeed resemble the situation of “bare life”, but this is not necessarily and invariably the case. In exploring this problematique, the present thesis will also look into the forms of resistance to sovereign power and ask to what extent the refugee and humanitarian regimes (mainly the activity of UNHCR) can be seen as articulating a resistance to the claims of the sovereign power for full control within its boundaries. |
| Supervisor | Nagy, Boldizsar |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/puscas_ioana.pdf |
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