Refugeehood and Multiple Vulnerability as a Philosophical Problem
Journal Title: ViraVerita: Peer-reviewed E-Journal of Interdisciplinary Encounters - Year 2018, Vol 8, Issue 0
Abstract
Ongoing territorial conflicts and civil wars besides poverty are the main reasons of ‘refugee crisis’. We are facing today a steadily increasing human flow in the world. Not only territorial battles or civil wars; but also social, political, economic, cultural conditions of some countries and the fear of persecution or oppression on the minorities force people to leave their country. People who are leaving their countries are seeking asylum in the safe countries because of life threating conditions of their home countries. The global refugee problem turns to be a ‘refugee crisis’. The problems of refugees in a host country are not same with problems of rights of citizens of host country; and to protect the dignity and vulnerability of refugees is more difficult than others. Refugees who lost their citizenship rights and left their homeland face with severe ethical problems and human rights violations. Refugees are regarded among the vulnerable groups as children, disables, elders, because of their living and political conditions and their being deprived of basic rights. The aim of this paper is to draw attention to the multiple vulnerability of refugees such as child, woman, elder and disable. In this paper, I will try to demonstrate that the refugee problem is not only a juridical or political problem, but also an ethical and philosophical problem.
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Berfin Kart
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