The United States and the Global Refugee Paradox

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2017 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Public International Law and Human Rights, grade: 4.0, City University of New York John Jay College of Criminal Justice, language: English, abstract: This paper will examind extensive literature from both academia and current media-news to show the relationship between the United States Syrian refugee crisis and the European refugee crisis. The findings of the paper were that there seems to be a paradox in how the world views the human rights of refugees. The political right does not feel obligated to protect refugee rights, and as result the refugee is faced with a crisis in their own country of origin and the international community. The findings look at how social politics and political realism have influenced the leaders of the political right to have platforms that they have on the national level. The paper will show similarities between how Islamophobia and anti-semitism in the 1940s are very similar in terms of attitudes and policy. Therefore, the idea that the current anti-refugee sentiment is cyclical, just a new decade and a new group. The paper will focus on the distinction between the political left and right in both Europe and the United States in terms of their anti-refugee policy.