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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
(Theme) dossier(s):zeitgeschichte|online / Utopien im Wandel. Zur Geschichte der Menschenrechte und des Humanitarismus im 20. Jahrhundert
Licence (German):License LogoZZF - Clio Lizenz