>..people don’t have enough to eat..in some cases, selling their children..in order to survive..fleeing across borders..to find jobs...fleeing a catastrophe that we have direct responsibility for..under the refugee laws..today, that wouldn’t count..[They're not] eligible for asylum..someone fleeing starvation is not considered a #refugee in the..definition of..the #Geneva Convention of 1951.
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/3/18/matthieu_aikins_afghanistan_refugee_hunger_crisis
#MathieuAikins on #StatelessPeople reminds me of #HannahArendt in #Imperialism

'.. the difference in treatment between the vast majority of refugees, who need smugglers to escape, and what’s happening in Ukraine right now, which is, of course, good. People should be allowed to flee wars without having to resort to #smugglers.'
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/3/18/matthieu_aikins_afghanistan_refugee_hunger_crisis
#DN! #MathieuAikins #Afghanistan #Refugees #InternallyDisplaced #StatelessPeople #Ukraine