Thai EnquirerBribery has been reported in Thailand’s nationality application process, with officials allegedly demanding payments of 3,000–40,000 baht per stateless applicant.
Hacker NewsTravel Guide for Stateless People
https://taejun.substack.com/p/travel-guide-for-stateless-people
#HackerNews #TravelGuide #StatelessPeople #Immigration #Rights #TravelTips #GlobalCitizenship
bs2"We have to have citizenship otherwise we can't live".
The caption on the "Eksil" (Exile) documentary screenshot reminded me of Hannah Arendt writing about "Stateless People" and how it seems impossible to guarantee human rights for everyone under the nation-state system...
#MaxLane #Eksil #LolaAmaria #IndonesianMovie #HannahArendt #StatelessPeople #Exiles #NeedingCitizenshipToLive #DisplacedPersons
A Cultural Blow to an Eroding Political Taboo: Viewing “Eksil” (The Exiles), a Hit Documentary | FULCRUM
A popular documentary about ten exiles has had an extraordinary run in Indonesia, not least because it sings a different tune from the official historical narrative about the Communist Party of Ind…
Brian SmallNo paradox of contemporary politics is filled with a more poignant irony than the discrepancy between the efforts of well-meaning idealists who stubbornly insist on regarding as “inalienable” those human rights, which are enjoyed only by citizens of the most prosperous and civilized countries, and the situation of the rightless themselves. Their situation has deteriorated just as stubbornly, until the internment camp—prior to the second World War the exception rather than the rule for the stateless—has become the routine solution for the problem of domicile of the “displaced persons.” #HannahArendt in #OnImperialism about #HumanRIghts and #StatelessPeople #DisplacedPersons
> Does extreme suffering always kindle cruelty? What hope does this leave the human race with? What will happen to the Palestinian people in the event of a victory? When a nation without a state eventually proclaims a state, what kind of state will it be? What horrors will be perpetrated under its flag? Is it a separate state that we should be fighting for or,
the rights to a life of liberty and dignity for everyone regardless of their ethnicity or religion?
> Denationalization became a powerful weapon of totalitarian politics, and the constitutional inability of European nation-states to guarantee #HumanRights to those who had lost nationally guaranteed rights, made it possible for the persecuting governments to impose their standard of values even upon their opponents. Those whom the persecutor had singled out as scum of the earth.. actually were received as scum of the earth everywhere..
#HannahArendt in #OnImperialism on #StatelessPeople
#HannahArendt in #OnImperialism on #StatelessPeople
.> Arendt claims the declaration itself embodies a contradiction: the declaration requires states to protect the ‘universal’ and ‘inalienable’ rights of all human beings, whereas the modern institution of the state is grounded on the principle of national and territorial sovereignty. This paradox, according to her, can only be resolved by the recognition of the ‘right to have rights’ as a juridico-political precondition for the protection of other human rights. Yet, a precise understanding of the right to have rights requires more closely examining Arendt’s diagnosis of the paradox of universal human rights. https://criticallegalthinking.com/2019/07/12/hannah-arendt-right-to-have-rights/
#UNDP #TheRightToHaveRights #HannahArendt #StatelessPeople
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#UNDP #TheRightToHaveRights #HannahArendt #StatelessPeople
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> .. #SocialMedia.. has good and bad aspects.. life-changing aspects. What I found out was that.. when #smugglers detain people in #Libya, they’re now crowd-funding.. they’ll post photos of people.. being #tortured.. so that they can crowd-fund.. ransoms.. captivity is being #monetized. So it’s.. raising the cost, but it’s also giving people a lifeline to try.. to escape these situations.
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/3/30/ukraine_russia_african_refugees_detention_center
#DN! #refugees #StatelessPeople #SallyHayden #Somaila #MyFourthTime #WeDrowned
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/3/30/ukraine_russia_african_refugees_detention_center
#DN! #refugees #StatelessPeople #SallyHayden #Somaila #MyFourthTime #WeDrowned
How Europe’s Anti-Migrant Policies Gave Rise to “Absolutely Horrific” Refugee Prisons in Libya
Western countries have opened their doors to millions of Ukrainians fleeing the war in their homeland, presenting a model of how refugees should be welcomed. But their experience stands in stark contrast to how African refugees are treated when attempting to reach Europe to escape war, hunger and despair. In her new book, “My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route,” author Sally Hayden details how a single message from an Eritrean refugee held in a Libyan detention center led her on a years-long journey to document the human rights disaster on Europe’s doorstep. She says that since a 2017 European Union agreement with Libya to stop migrants before they cross the Mediterranean, many refugees have been imprisoned in hellish detention centers run by armed groups with little care for the safety or well-being of the people inside. “Tens of thousands of people have been locked up in detention centers that Pope Francis, among many others, have compared to concentration camps,” says Hayden. “The situation is absolutely horrific.”
> “Oh, Maria, you’re so obsessed with migrants and refugees. That’s because you’re an immigrant yourself. You’re so #Mexican.” It’s like, no, I’m obsessed with the capacity that this country has for #inhumanity, and specifically watching how that inhumanity is being thrust on people who are Black and simply seeking #refuge.
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/3/30/us_southern_border_migrants_refugees
#Haiti #Mexico #Ukraine #refugees #MariaHinojosa #DN! #USA #StatelessPeople #migrants #immigrants
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/3/30/us_southern_border_migrants_refugees
#Haiti #Mexico #Ukraine #refugees #MariaHinojosa #DN! #USA #StatelessPeople #migrants #immigrants
U.S. Prepares to Arrest Surge of Migrants at Southern Border as It Welcomes 100,000 Ukrainian Refugees
As the U.S. says it will welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees fleeing the Russian invasion, immigration officials say they’re preparing for a surge of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border as it ends the Trump-era pandemic restriction Title 42 in response to humanitarian outcry. We speak with Guerline Jozef of the Haitian Bridge Alliance about how Haitian refugees are treated, and with award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa about the Haitians she met in a migrant caravan. Jozef says President Biden’s pledge to welcome Ukrainian refugees, while necessary, is a painful display of the double standard faced by Haitian immigrants and other people of color seeking humanitarian relief in the United States. “Why is it that when it comes to people of color, Black and Brown people, we must continue to push and beg to validate our humanity?” asks Jozef. Hinojosa has been reporting on migration for her podcast series “The Moving Border” and says the Biden administration is “appeasing” anti-immigrant forces in the U.S. by continuing rejections, deportations and detentions at the southern border. “What we are seeing is … white supremacy in the context of refugees and desperate people,” says Hinojosa.
>..people don’t have enough to eat..in some cases, selling their children..in order to survive..fleeing across borders..to find jobs...fleeing a catastrophe that we have direct responsibility for..under the refugee laws..today, that wouldn’t count..[They're not] eligible for asylum..someone fleeing starvation is not considered a #refugee in the..definition of..the #Geneva Convention of 1951.
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/3/18/matthieu_aikins_afghanistan_refugee_hunger_crisis
#MathieuAikins on #StatelessPeople reminds me of #HannahArendt in #Imperialism
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/3/18/matthieu_aikins_afghanistan_refugee_hunger_crisis
#MathieuAikins on #StatelessPeople reminds me of #HannahArendt in #Imperialism
“¿Quién merece ser salvado según Occidente?”, se pregunta Matthieu Aikins tras acompañar a refugiados afganos en su viaje hacia un lugar seguro
Desde que los talibanes asumieron el control del Gobierno de Afganistán el año pasado, ese país enfrenta una crisis humanitaria, con la mitad de la población padeciendo hambre aguda. La Agencia de la ONU para los Refugiados afirma que 3,4 millones de personas afganas se desplazaron dentro del país por el conflicto armado, que el sistema de salud está sufriendo un grave desabastecimiento y que el personal de escuelas y hospitales no está recibiendo su salario en momentos que el precio de los alimentos y la energía aumenta. Muchas personas consideran que esta situación responde a las restricciones económicas que impuso el Gobierno de Biden. Analizamos la crisis que se está desarrollando en Afganistán con el periodista Matthieu Aikins que vivía en Kabul y viajó de manera encubierta con refugiados afganos atravesando fronteras hacia Occidente, con el fin de escribir el libro “The Naked Don’t Fear the Water” (Las personas desnudas no le temen al agua). “Es muy cruda la diferencia en el trato que recibe la gran mayoría de las personas que buscan un lugar seguro, que necesitan recurrir a contrabandistas para escapar, y lo que está sucediendo en Ucrania en este momento”, dice Aikins. El periodista colabora con The New York Times Magazine. En su artículo más reciente publicado en ese medio, Aikins se pregunta: ¿Quién merece ser salvado según Occidente?