Arendt: Statelessness, Right to Have Rights and a Critique of Human Rights
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This article is not only to explore Hannah Arendt’s major concepts: statelessness, stateless people, rightlessness and the right to have rights, but it also characterizes the statelessness as one of the defining phenomena in contemporary history. This is originated from the decline of nation-state, which is unable to protect the rights of its citizen. Moreover, the article argues that statelessness entails the rightlessness, whereas stateless people lose their dwelling and the human condition. This consequently leads Arendt to introduce the right to rights, to secure the human dignity, and consequently critiquing human rights that fail to guarantee the humans and their rights.
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