RETHINKING HUMAN RIGHTS WITH ARENDT: CRISIS AND PARADOX FOR NON-CITIZENS BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE

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The thesis aims to understand and analyze Hannah Arendt's understanding of human rights which is developed over the mass of stateless/non-citizen people that she identified in the gap between theory and practice. From the perspective of the study, there are naturalistic conception and political conception approaches in the human rights literature on the theoretical level. Arendt, on the other hand, develops a critical perspective on human rights by expressing the human rights crisis experienced by stateless people, who are excluded from the form of citizenship and deprived of legal protection, as a paradox. Arendt conceptualizes the "right to have rights" by talking about the existence of a more fundamental right that should be had before human rights. This relationship that Arendt establishes between human rights and citizenship challenges the discourses of human rights such as universality and birthright. By examining Arendt's human rights perspective and conceptualization of the right to have rights, the thesis argues that Arendt produces an alternative way of thinking for human rights, different from these approaches in the literature. After the theoretical analysis, the thesis exemplifies the human rights problems experienced by non-citizens through the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on refugees and the statelessness experience of the Syrian stateless Kurds. With these examples, the thesis defends the practical validity of the relationship Arendt established between the subject of rights and citizenship. Thus, the thesis aims to contribute to the literature by evaluating the current validity of Arendt's human rights critique in theoretical and practical terms.

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Hannah Arendt, human rights, the right to have rights, non-citizens, stateless, haklara sahip olma hakkı, insan hakları, vatandaş olmayanlar, devletsizler

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M. Fırat, “RETHINKING HUMAN RIGHTS WITH ARENDT: CRISIS AND PARADOX FOR NON-CITIZENS BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.