Diaspora Diary

Friday, September 13, 2013

One’s Burden Is One’s Freedom: Rejected Refugees in the Context of Sri Lanka

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Asylum seekers are not refugees but they are refugees without rights to be refugees. From a victim to be a refugee, the context of distance is legally bounded in universal human rights as well as state level rules and laws in a second or a third country of refugees. It is complicated in practice to decide whether that is qualified for refugee or not, even though there is a political and a social sense to determine human beings, who wish to be as a refugee. In the stratification of human history, refugees are brought to the last and bottom strata in the society having with fragile identity.  But even it is so, in the global context, if someone falls down to be a refugee, it is not easy to enter into that level, as it is a competitive and complicated human tragedy.