Refugee Refusals: Human Rights and Humanitarianism since 1948
- As Hannah Arendt anticipated in 1951, refugees have become a major issue in contemporary societies. Writing just three years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights had been adopted in 1948, Arendt argued that refugees exposed a fundamental tension between universal human rights and the sovereignty of nation-states. For Arendt, human rights were an abstraction; the only real rights were those possessed by citizens.
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| Author: | Bill Sharman |
|---|---|
| URL: | https://zeitgeschichte-online.de/themen/refugee-refusals-human-rights-and-humanitarianism-1948 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.14765/zzf.dok-2590 |
| Parent Title (German): | Dossier: Utopien im Wandel. Zur Geschichte der Menschenrechte und des Humanitarismus im 20. Jahrhundert |
| Publisher: | ZZF - Centre for Contemporary History: Zeitgeschichte online |
| Place of publication: | Potsdam |
| Document Type: | Online Publication |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first Publication: | 2018/12/07 |
| Release Date: | 2023/07/30 |
| ZZF Chronological-Classification: | 20. Jahrhundert |
| 1945- | |
| ZZF Topic-Classification: | Alltag |
| Migration | |
| Politik | |
| Bevölkerung | |
| Transnationale Geschichte | |
| Global History | |
| Verfassung | |
| ZZF Regional-Classification: | regional übergreifend |
| Web-Publications: | Zeitgeschichte online |
| Licence (German): |  ZZF - Clio Lizenz |
