CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Bender, Felix Emanuel Hermann |
|---|---|
| Title | Refugees: The Unfree and Oppressed. Normative Foundations of Refugeehood and Rights in Displacement |
| Summary | Who should be recognized as refugees? What are the normative foundations for their claims, and which are the rights refugees should receive in displacement? This thesis addresses these questions. It argues that neither persecution for specific or for any discriminatory reasons, nor a fear of harm should ground a right to refugee status. Refugees are not those persecuted or those fearing harm, but those politically oppressed and unfree. They are those who lack the legal and political means to seek recourse to their specific situations, to control the conditions that govern their lives. It is this condition of political unfreedom of refugees that extends into their displacement. Refugees are oppressed in refugee camps, unfree in liberal democracies. I argue that this should change. Refugees should govern refugee camps and receive political rights on a national level in liberal democracies. |
| Supervisor | Dimitrijevic, Nenad |
| Department | Political Science PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/bender_felix.pdf |
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