German Refugee Policy in the Wake of the Syrian Refugee Crisis

We become aware of the existence of a right to have rights (and that means to live in a framework where one is judged by one’s actions and opinions) and a right to belong to some kind of organized community, only when millions of people emerge who had lost and could not regain these rights because of the new global political situation.Hannah Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism (1951: 296-297)Introduction At the Symposium on Refugee Protection, on June 30, 2014 in Berlin, Germany’s President J...