The American University in Cairo
School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
The Center for Migration and Refugee Studies
"Refugees, Asylum, and Effective Nationality"
The modern, political, legal approach to human rights and protection is problematic in that human rights abuses are still widely occurring and in some cases are increasing. Despite legal and political regimes becoming more complex and growing in jurisprudence, the protections against human rights abuses that these systems purportedly aim to build are ineffective, and in many cases the complexities of the systems are specifically designed to protect other interests. These other interests can even be antithetical to their stated purposes of human rights protection. In fewer examples is this more clear than in the case of the modern concept of the refugee. By examining one aspect of refugee protection, namely the effective nationality against which claims for asylum are decided, this talk will focus on the idea that not all nationalities are created equal. The case of the refugee serves as a marker for a systemic problem of how human rights derivation is understood through nations, states, and legal protection. The protection shortfalls that are occurring are the basis of a critique aimed at seeing substantive change in the protection for refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced persons (IDPs), and the stateless. The talk will focus on seeing this change happen through a shift in understanding of human rights as inherent to the nature of humanity and not as privileges established by state power structures.
Speaker:
Zachary Jackman
CMRS Student
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
6th Floor Lounge - Hill House, Tahrir Square Campus
6.00- 7.30 pm
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