Voting rights of refugees / ruvi Ziegler.

By:

Ziegler, Ruvi

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017Description: 1 online resource (250 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781108224680
1108224687

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Voting rights of refugees.DDC classification:

323 22

LOC classification:

K3230.R45 Z54 2017eb

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Contents:

Status and rights of recognised 1951 convention refugees in international law -- Interrelations between voting and state citizenship -- Political predicament and remedies.

Summary: This book develops a novel legal argument about the voting rights of refugees recognised in the 1951 Geneva Convention. The main normative contention is that such refugees should have the right to vote in the political community where they reside, assuming that this community is a democracy and that its citizens have the right to vote. The book argues that recognised refugees are a special category of non-citizen residents: they are unable to participate in elections of their state of origin, do not enjoy its diplomatic protection and consular assistance abroad, and are unable or unwilling, owing to a well-founded fear of persecution, to return to it. Refugees deserve to have a place in the world, in the Arendtian sense, where their opinions are significant and their actions are effective. Their state of asylum is the only community in which there is any prospect of political participation on their part.

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This book develops a novel legal argument about the voting rights of refugees recognised in the 1951 Geneva Convention. The main normative contention is that such refugees should have the right to vote in the political community where they reside, assuming that this community is a democracy and that its citizens have the right to vote. The book argues that recognised refugees are a special category of non-citizen residents: they are unable to participate in elections of their state of origin, do not enjoy its diplomatic protection and consular assistance abroad, and are unable or unwilling, owing to a well-founded fear of persecution, to return to it. Refugees deserve to have a place in the world, in the Arendtian sense, where their opinions are significant and their actions are effective. Their state of asylum is the only community in which there is any prospect of political participation on their part.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Status and rights of recognised 1951 convention refugees in international law -- Interrelations between voting and state citizenship -- Political predicament and remedies.

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