The Refugee Crisis: The Dangers Of The Refugee Crisis

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Just this past summer an estimated 2500 people died in an attempt to escape the dangers of the syrian civil war (smith). The refugee crises itself poses a danger to the global community, however, it also forces us to ask a bigger question: how far should we go to protect human dignity. In modern politics we see issues of foreign intervention and border control, and often reflect on how our world became globalized. When considering the interdependence of nations, it becomes clear to me that the value of human life stands much higher than the value of national sovereignty. This issue continuously causes clash as we call into question the purpose of governments versus the weight carried by global human rights. For the purpose of this paper consider …show more content…

When we consider the fact that individuals within Syria were fighting for western ideals such as democracy in conjunction with the fact that they are facing obscenely high death tolls, as well as things such as chemical weapons, it turning our back on these individuals becomes unimaginable that the western world (Uri 1). Despite this being the case, many instead have chosen to turn their backs on these refugees even though the majority of these people have shown themselves to be entirely harmless.An influx of people from a muslim country does not inherently mean letting in terrorists, which we’ve seen to be true throughout history. In fact an individual intending to commit acts of …show more content…

it is their very incapacity that brings us in” meaning people do not earn human rights via revolution, reform, or through any other means, but rather they are inherent to all humans, whereas sovereignty acts merely as a tool which allows a government to have rule over its citizens. When we take into account the fact that the government of the nation committing the rights abuses uses sovereignty as an instrument to contradict its purpose, it becomes obvious that we can no longer find value in it, however human rights are always of value, and always an end we are obligated to strive for. A global obligation to protect the rights of all humans exists, and in situations such as the one at hand choosing not to act equates to allowing the injustice to

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