Who are Refugees?

Lister, Matthew J.

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“…Although to assess the categorical extent to which hunters are persecuted is not within the scope of this paper, hunters are clearly not genuine victims of persecution, philosophically or legally speaking (Kuosmanen 2014;Lister 2013;Locke 2010;Mill 1974). That said, however, even if Swedish hunters' claims to persecution may seem innocuous given their relative rights in a well-developed democratic society, scholars suggest that the scope of victimhood is evolving particularly in such states (Jacoby 2015).…”

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The Implications of Victimhood Identity: The Case of ‘Persecution’ of Swedish Hunters

Essen

Allen

2017

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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This ethnographically based study examines Swedish hunters' claims to victimhood through appeal to the term 'persecution'. Perceiving disenfranchisement, injustice and discrimination on the basis of wolf conservation policy, we present hunters' self-styled predicament as victimhood-claimants of persecution at the hands of a state that has been co-opted by a conservationist, pro-wolf agenda that systematically disenfranchises rural and hunting interests and lifestyles. Through the phenomenological accounts of hunter respondents, our paper takes seriously the hunters' perception of persecution and, likewise, considers the opposite case made by conservationists: that wolves have been, and continue to be, the real victims of persecution in the conflict. Nonetheless, we show that the persecution language as it is applied from opposing parties in the conflict is problematic inasmuch as it is focused around creating a moral panic and confusion among the Swedish public who are ultimately responsible, as a democratic body-politic, for assessing the legitimacy of claims to moral wrong-doing and legal redress for the wronged. Our case study joins scholarship that explores the pathologies of claims to victimization by populist rural interest groups in the context of controversial conservation directives.

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“…Such extreme injustice places the legitimate state under a binding obligation to provide legal protections for the victims of persecution (Lister 2013). This, at any rate, is how the concept of persecution is used correctly in philosophical and legal discourse.…”

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The Implications of Victimhood Identity: The Case of ‘Persecution’ of Swedish Hunters

Essen

Allen

2017

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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“…This paper does not argue, as some have suggested, that definitions of who is a refugee need to be expanded to a variety of groups unable to meet basic needs in their place of origin (see for example Shacknove 1985). In contrast, it regards the general criteria of absence of state protection and well-founded fear of prosecution based on important characteristics at the core of one's identity that the relevant refugee conventions are built on as valid justifications for a global commitment to humanitarian principles and justice (Lister 2013). 2 In turn, those suffering from a well-founded 3 fear of prosecution have (in theory) the right to 'reasonable access to full membership in a society of refuge' (Lister 2013, 669), either temporarily or for the long-durée.…”

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Realising rights within the Israeli asylum regime: a case study among Eritrean refugees in Tel Aviv

Müller

2017

African Geographical Review

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Israel has since 2005 become an important destination for asylum seekers from sub-Saharan Africa. Even though it was an early signatory to the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, the development of an Israeli asylum regime has only gathered pace since then. That regime is underpinned by a discourse of securitisation that regards most asylum seekers as hostile 'infiltrators'. This paper is based on fieldwork among the Eritrean refugee community in Israel and in using two concrete case studies analyses the struggles of Eritrean refugees to realize rights and lay claim to a viable future. Their struggles provide insights into the wider debate on the lack of concrete footing of universal rights in actual political space.

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“…117–24, and others use brief sections. Martin (); Price (); Lister () use protection models consonant with my approach.…”

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Refugee Rights: Against Expanding the Definition of a “Refugee” and Unilateral Protection Elsewhere

Cherem

2015

J Political Philosophy

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Who are Refugees?

Cited by 58 publications

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The Implications of Victimhood Identity: The Case of ‘Persecution’ of Swedish Hunters

The Implications of Victimhood Identity: The Case of ‘Persecution’ of Swedish Hunters

Realising rights within the Israeli asylum regime: a case study among Eritrean refugees in Tel Aviv

Refugee Rights: Against Expanding the Definition of a “Refugee” and Unilateral Protection Elsewhere

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