Travel Guide for Stateless People

https://taejun.substack.com/p/travel-guide-for-stateless-people

#HackerNews #TravelGuide #StatelessPeople #Immigration #Rights #TravelTips #GlobalCitizenship

"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...

https://fulcrum.sg/a-cultural-blow-to-an-eroding-political-taboo-viewing-eksil-the-exiles-a-hit-documentary/

#MaxLane #Eksil #LolaAmaria #IndonesianMovie #HannahArendt #StatelessPeople #Exiles #NeedingCitizenshipToLive #DisplacedPersons

No 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.”

> 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?

#StatelessPeople and #HumanRights

> 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

.> 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.

> .. #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

> “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

>..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

'.. the difference in treatment between the vast majority of refugees, who need smugglers to escape, and what’s happening in Ukraine right now, which is, of course, good. People should be allowed to flee wars without having to resort to #smugglers.'
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/3/18/matthieu_aikins_afghanistan_refugee_hunger_crisis
#DN! #MathieuAikins #Afghanistan #Refugees #InternallyDisplaced #StatelessPeople #Ukraine

Maybe some #Afghan refugees will get to #Ukraine and #EasternEurope. They can show how things work out after #Rambo visits with #StingerMissiles. The #Refugees (#StatelessPeople) can talk with #TomHanks (#ElliotAbrams, #VictoriaNuland). #MotoHashiSeiIchi's #AlexeiInBelarus (near #Chernobyl) and the #peasant women can teach the #EliteWarring planners some #Farming. #BertrandRussel thought gardening could make #aristocrats less prone to destroy eveyone else's efforts.
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/3/18/matthieu_aikins_afghanistan_refugee_hunger_crisis

> The #Yemen crisis is old. It’s been seven years. And we have seen, time and again, how the media loses interest and has to move on to the next thing. So there’s an #AttentionSpan issue.. And..the inherent racism that we see and that we’ve seen on such grotesque display by the #WesternMedia, talking about the white and blue-eyed, blond-haired #Ukrainians who are somehow different. Their #refugee status.. Their #suffering is different.
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/3/16/saudi_arabia_oil_sanctions_yemen_humanitarian
#war #StatelessPeople

It would have been nice if the present war in the Ukraine with refugees ( #StatelessPeople ?) shelling, dead people, and dangers of nuclear annhiliation could have been avoided.. If avoiding war and refugees and nuclear catastrophe was a concern of USA policy, the #IMF , and #oligarchs ...

"The Decline of the Nation-State
and the End of the Rights of Man" #AmReading a 5.7MB chapter on #Imperialism of the 27.2MB book #OriginsOfTotalitarianism by #Arendt , #HannahArendt . This one page (284) , the top paragraph and footnotes show the #NationStateSystem, as a #Kafka #ComedyOfErrors, full of legal contradiction... I #giggle while thinking of the #ignorance of world leaders but not when thinking of #refugees , the Earth's #StatelessPeople .
https://carleton.ca/polisci/wp-content/uploads/Hannah-Arendt-The-Origins-of-TotalitarianismPart-II-Chapter-9.pdf

'... the core of #state­lessnes , which is identical with the #refugee question, is simply not men­tioned. Worse still, the number of potentially #StatelessPeople is con­tinually on the increase... ' #HannahArendt saying #DisplacedPersons obfuscates the core design flaws in the #NationState . Reading the pages about #EasternEurope in the #Imperialism part of #OriginsOfTotalitarianism is fasicnating. Maybe the #MiddleEaster #refugees can introduce #Ukranians #Poles to #Confederalism of #ocalan

@kravietz
Thanks for mentioning #Imperialism . #EasternEurope's situation now is reminding of #HannahArendt on the topic in #OriginsOfTotalitarianism. I'm searching for her lines about #StatelessPeople and the problem that Europe's nation-state system can't guarantee #HumanRights ( #arendt writes #RightsOfMan but we know what she really meant, thanks to #HansaMehta and #eleanorroosevelt .
@strypey