The international guaranteed rights of refugees are eroding on both sides of the Atlantic.
If the EU, political leaders and elite journalists want to position themselves against the right of unwanted refugees to seek protection — thus excluding the politically valuable Ukrainians — and use this to create anti-migrant sentiment and score points, why doesn’t the EU simply withdraw from the refugee convention altogether?
A number of states such as India have not signed the Geneva Convention, nor has Turkey in effect, since the countryto its ramification, which means that only those fleeing as a consequence of “events occurring in Europe” can be given refugee status.
The dirty truth behind the humanitarian and liberal self-image of European and German elites, who carry their commitment to human and refugee rights proudly in front of them, is that they think and act less in line with humanitarian interests than geostrategic and nationalist ones. James C. Hathaway, one of the leading refugee rights experts and author of the standard work, “The Rights of Refugees under International Law,”If the global north were to withdraw entirely from refugee law, there would be no politically viable basis upon which to insist that poorer countries continue to shoulder their refugee law obligations under the current system of atomized responsibility and fluctuating charity from the wealthier world.
There are rational and sustainable solutions as well as reform proposals that are beneficial for all parties involved — especially for the refugees and the frontline states, but also the rich industrialized countries and their populations — beyond ad-hoc crisis management. They have been on the table for decades, elaborated by
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