Stateless Essays

  • Short Essay On Stateless People

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    consequences of specific actions, done by a specific person, if their country revokes their citizenships etc. In order to describe statelessness, one needs to understand that there are different types of statelessness. A stateless person is defined stateless by the 1954 Stateless Persons Convention as “ a person who is not considered as a national by any State under the operation of its law”. The Palestinians living on the West Bank is de jure statelessness. If a person is de jure

  • Ethnic Boundaries In Sociological Literature

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    Introduction Views of ethnicity and ethnic boundaries in the sociological literature can be broadly divided into two categories. On the one hand, scholars like Weber ([1922] 1968) focus on the essential characteristics of ethnicity and a set of subjective “beliefs,” collective understandings of a common ancestry and shared culture (385, 389). On the other hand, another category of ethnic boundaries derive from the work of social anthropologists such as Fredrik Barth (1969) who theorizes that

  • Social Control In Stateless Society

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    deviants and undesirables part of the very society that supposedly deals with them? Don’t they interact with others? Or are we to assume that “society” in reality means the state and its agents and institutions? Then, what about Social Control in stateless societies? Ross’s legacy is totally confusing and worthless? Ross himself clearly meant it to cover both the formal institutions of the state and all kinds of nongovernmental arenas, some of them at the “bottom” of society. Thus, Ross allowed for

  • Essay On Causes Of Statelessness

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    blemish in international law’ were applied to the plight of stateless people. UNHCR was mandated to assist stateless refugees in 1950. While a significant number of refugees and asylum-seekers are also stateless, their numbers are usually reflected in figures relating to refugees and asylum-seekers. During the past five years, 20% of all refugees resettled by UNHCR have also been stateless. UNHCR was mandated in the 1970s to assist stateless people under the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness

  • Cause Of Statelessness Essay

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    Universal Declaration of Human Rights confirmed the right of everyone to a nationality. Two supplementary transnational instruments have since been promulgated to enhance protection and reduce statelessness: the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. Their still too limited ratification is a source of concern, stemming in part as it does from a lack of understanding as to the extent of the problem and the severity of the consequences

  • Pros And Cons Of UNHCR

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    In order for UNHCR to carry through with its statelessness mandate, it has been assigned with the mission of protecting and assisting stateless populations, providing advanced legal and humanitarian aid especially in cases where the States concerned fail to do so. Through a series of Conclusions, the UNGA reiterates the UNHCR’s mandate to identify, prevent and reduce statelessness around the world and calls on the agency to work closely with Governments in order to provide technical support and

  • Essay On Inhumanity Equal Statelessness

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    internationality of rights and the jurisdiction of the sovereign states over its territories. So the stateless persons situated out of the framework of the nation-state that the international relations and the international law ease. This theses also will raise a debate, by characterizing the major challenges to guaranteeing the stateless people rights. First, it reviews the provisions relating to the stateless people status in the 1954 Convention, and the international procedures which adopted to response

  • Statelessness In Thailand

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    found around every country in the world not only one specific location. Stateless people reside in everywhere but most of them live in Asia. As in publish researches show some examples of stateless people that some are the Kenyan Nubians living in Africa, some are hill tribes living in the north of Thailand, some are indigenous group in India, some are Dominicans of Haitian descent living in the Caribbean. Most of stateless people are likely to live in one place because of movement restriction

  • Statelessness In Africa

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    Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) guarantees that every child shall has the right to acquire nationality. Enforced together, these provisions guarantee the right to nationality of every child particularly where the child would otherwise be stateless. Also, in the Nubian case, the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child held that the obligation of State Parties under the African Children’s Charter in relation to making sure that all children are registered immediately

  • Racial Discrimination

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    definition of a stateless person is set out under Article 1 of the 1954 Convention relating to the Stateless Persons, according to which, a stateless person is a person who is not considered a national by any state under the operation of its law. Several other definitions in this regard have been coined since the time when the problem was first encountered. A person not having a nationality under the law of any state is called statelessness, apatride, apolide or heinatlos. A stateless person has also

  • Hannah Arent's Paradox Of Human Rights

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    based solely on the fact that (s)he is a human. (Alıntı yap birinden)? According to Hannah Arendt, the condition of the stateless and refugees beginning from the end of the First World War show us explicitly the paradox of this discourse, for the refugees had no rights precisely because they were merely human, and had nothing else to hold on. They were not citizens, thus stateless, which meant that they had no rights. In this paper, the paradox of human rights will be discussed from a Arendtian perspective

  • Themes In Banish Medea

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    responds, allowing Medea to use his weakness, his love for his daughter, to fulfil her wish to stay in the country. Here are two points of interest in this section of the play that relate to broader themes and issues; children and being stateless. The fear of being stateless, which Medea was facing in this section, was seen as being a dreadful fate and had been described as a living death. Belonging to a state was a necessary condition of civilised life, a woman belonged to her husband after he had paid

  • Marxism And Social Class

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    In this quote, Marx describes that elements that contribute to the productivity of the existing capitalist society, are also the source of the society’s existing instability and issues. For Marx, the material productive forces are the workers and the tools or methods used in the production process. The existing relations of production refers to the way society is organized as a result of the production. More specifically, society is divided into social classes. In the first sentence, Marx states

  • Africa In The Post-Classical Era

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    These stateless societies had a legitimate, informal government but, had no official bureaucratic system. During the early Post-Classical era, Ghana played an important part in West African society because even though they had limited connections to outside kingdoms, they still traded with neighboring societies. Gold and salt were two of the major commodities that helped grow these small stateless societies into large and prospering empires. With trade

  • Human Rights Violations In Rohingya

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    Against the Rohingya" will examine the implicit government policies that target the Rohingya for extermination. This chapter will therefore analyze Myanmar's political, economic, and socio-cultural intolerance for the Rohingya that have made them stateless and forced them to flee from Myanmar for security in their neighboring states such as Bangladesh, Thailand, and Malaysia. Section 3, "Protecting the Rohingya," challenges the international community to pursue all means available to end the abuse

  • Persuasive Essay On Asylum Seekers

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    There is currently a massively unprecedented refugee crisis happening, with more displaced people across the world than has ever been recorded. Every minute, 20 people are being displaced due to conflict or mistreatment, and many of these refugees do not find a permanent home for decades. Australia is one of the countries that ratified the Refugees Convention in 1954, and refugees flock to find a home in this beautiful country. In the past financial year, 24,162 humanitarian arrivals took place in

  • Nt1330 Unit 3 Assignment 1 Research Paper

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    TELE 5330 – DATA NETWORKING ASSIGNMENT #2 Name: Prashanth Reddy Edunuri Grade (1) Most applications that use peer-to-peer communication also employs client server communication for some portion of functionality as decentralized peer-to-peer networks have numerous compensations over old-fashioned client-server networks. This system endorsed files to be questioned and shared between users, devoid of a central directory, and as a result shielded the network from lawful

  • Marx And Engels In The Communist Manifesto By Karl Marx

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    also be no state, no government, or even laws, as that would once again create classes of those who are governed and those who are governors. Competition and wars between other countries would cease as well because they, too, would reach this same stateless stage. Nations would no longer exist. Most importantly, private property would be abolished and a free market would dominate. The majority of the society would now own and control production, and thus democracy would be used to plan and provide for

  • Summary: The Revolution Of Agriculture

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    Chiefdoms: A type of agricultural village society, which overlooked, and ruled, by an official chief. Chiefs did not subject force and relied more so on their inherent charisma in order to persuade their peoples. 6. How did chiefdoms differ from stateless agricultural village societies? • Chiefs relied on their inherent charisma to appeal and persuade their people, Agricultural village societies had large assemblies in which they would agree upon resolutions for conflict. • Chiefdoms had one specific

  • Utopian Socialism Research Paper

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     Utopian Socialism is the idea that everything that you produce as a worker belongs to the government, and the government has the power to give back to you only the necessary amount of that product that you need in order for your family to live.  There is an analogy involving two cows that explains this process very well, let’s say that you have two cows, the government will take all of the milk that you can produce and will pay you compensation for any animals that can not work. Then the government