{"id":115520,"date":"2024-06-20T19:14:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T13:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/?post_type=editorial-analysis&#038;p=115520"},"modified":"2024-06-21T20:23:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T14:53:57","slug":"blueprints-beyond-borders-for-solace-and-shelter","status":"publish","type":"editorial-analysis","link":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/editorial-analysis\/blueprints-beyond-borders-for-solace-and-shelter","title":{"rendered":"Blueprints Beyond Borders for Solace and Shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, the world has over <\/span><b>43.4 million refugees<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and with conflicts raging in different parts of the world, this number is only increasing. But as it rises, we also run the risk of treating these people as figures in a <\/span><b>statistical compilation, and not human beings<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with needs, fears, hopes and wants. Yet this, precisely, is what they are.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100.1%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"border-style: solid; border-color: #000000; background-color: rgba(184, 165, 217, 0.53); text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 100%;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Relevancy for Prelims:<\/b> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/world-refugee-day-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World Refugee Day 2024<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, UN Refugee Convention, 1967 Protocol, international legal principle of non-refoulement etc.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Relevancy for Mains:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 Socio-political and legal challenges faced by refugees in India, Refugees in India, etc.<\/span><\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Blueprints Beyond Borders for Solace and Shelter<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>World Refugee Day (June 20)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a sombreoccasion to think of all those human beings \u2014 a ceaseless succession of families with dreams and desires, laughter and joy \u2014 whose<\/span><b> lives have been uprooted<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, all those homes that have been destroyed, and all those futures that have been jeopardised.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But this is also an occasion to think of<\/span><b> safe havens granted, asylum ensured, refugees protected, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and solutions found.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India is well-poised to <\/span><b>commemorate this poignant day<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. History, after all, is on our side.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our record of <\/span><b>granting asylum goes back millennia, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from the<\/span><b> Jews who fled to India <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">centuries before Christ after the <\/span><b>demolition of their Jerusalem Temple<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the Babylonians and then the<\/span><b> Romans, to the Zoroastrians fleeing Islamic persecution in Persia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, to the<\/span><b> East Bengalis<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 for the cause of whose nationhood we waged <\/span><b>war with Pakistan in 1971<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, liberating what became Bangladesh \u2014<\/span><b>Tibetans and Sri Lankan Tamils<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in more recent years, alongside <\/span><b>streams of Nepalis, Afghans and Rohingyas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a nation that attained independence against the backdrop of one of the <\/span><b>most horrific refugee crises in history,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> when 13 million to 15 million people crossed the freshly created <\/span><b>borders between India and Pakistan,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> we are all too aware of the perils that befall refugees, and of the consequent need to help them rebuild their lives.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"vc_button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pw.live\/batches\/upsc\/pw-only-ias?utm_source=seo+upsc+batch&#038;utm_medium=seo+upsc&#038;utm_campaign=seo&#038;utm_id=upsc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enroll now for UPSC Online Classes<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>The Pitch for Suitable Legislation<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite our glorious history of affording solace and shelter to refugees from the world over, it is ironic that<\/span><b> India is neither a signatory to the UN Refugee Convention<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (which outlines the rights of asylum seekers and refugees, alongside the obligations of host states) nor to its <\/span><b>1967 Protocol. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nor does our country have a <\/span><b>domestic asylum framework.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whereas, with our history, we ought to lead the global march on the<\/span><b> question of refugee rights, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">our present actions and <\/span><b>lack of a legal framework <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">does our heritage no credit, shames us in the eyes of the world, and fails to match up to our stellar past track record.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was to address these gaping lacunae introduced, in February 2022, a <\/span><b>Private Member\u2019s Bill in the Lok Sabha<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, seeking the enactment of a <\/span><b>Refugee and Asylum law.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bill laid down <\/span><b>comprehensive criteria for recognising asylum seekers and refugees, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and prescribed<\/span><b> specific rights and duties<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> accruing from such status.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This legislation was proposed because of our government\u2019s failure to honour the <\/span><b>international legal principle of non-refoulement <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014 the cornerstone of refugee law, which states that no country should send a person to a place where they may suffer persecution \u2014 and even more, its betrayal of India\u2019s impeccable<\/span><b> tradition of granting asylum to strangers.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Titled the <\/span><b>Asylum Bill, 2021, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it followed close on the heels of our government expelling to Myanmar two<\/span><b> batches of Rohingya refugees <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">despite the grave risk of persecution in the country they had fled.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In conducting this act of <\/span><b>\u201crefoulement\u201d in violation of international law,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> our government revealed both religious bigotry (the refugees were Muslim) and intolerance.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, in 2017, the <\/span><b>Ministry of Home Affairs <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">issued a circular classifying<\/span><b> Rohingyas as \u201cillegal migrants\u201d,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> leading to their being callously flung into detention centres across India, where they languish in deplorable conditions \u2014 unable to communicate with their families and without any access to medical facilities, food, sanitation and water supply \u2014 until they are deported.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As of August 2023, over <\/span><b>700 Rohingyas were in detention<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> throughout India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government has also been inhospitable to the <\/span><b>Chakmas in Arunachal Pradesh and Myanmarese in Mizoram.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bill sought to put an end to such<\/span><b> arbitrary conduct <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by the authorities.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It afforded to all foreigners \u2014 regardless of their<\/span><b> nationality, race, or religion <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014 the right to seek asylum in India.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also called for the creation of a <\/span><b>National Commission for Asylum<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to review and decide all such applications.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having staunchly affirmed, with no exceptions, the principle of non-refoulement, it specified<\/span><b> reasons for exclusion, expulsion and revocation of refugee status,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> thus respecting the government\u2019s sovereign authority while limiting its discretion.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>In a State of Suspense<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the <\/span><b>absence of a consistent and comprehensive law<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to deal with asylum seekers, we lack a clear perspective on <\/span><b>refugee management.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have a<\/span><b> flurry of such laws<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Foreigners Act, 1946.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Registration of Foreigners Act, 1939.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Passports Act (1967).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Extradition Act, 1962, the Citizenship Act, 1955 (including its ominous 2019 amendment).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Foreigners Order, 1948, all of which club all foreign individuals together as \u201caliens\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because India has neither subscribed to <\/span><b>international conventions <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on the topic nor set up a <\/span><b>domestic legislative framework to deal with refugees,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> their problems are dealt with in an ad hoc manner, and like other foreigners, they always face the<\/span><b> possibility of being deported.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While speaking of refugee protection, we must <\/span><b>not limit ourselves just to providing asylum.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We need a rigorous mechanism to ensure that <\/span><b>refugees can access basic public services <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014 chief among them medical facilities and educational institutions \u2014 and <\/span><b>legally seek jobs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to get back on their feet.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We can, and must, do better. India should enact a <\/span><b>National Asylum Law<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, such as the one I have presented to Parliament.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We currently <\/span><b>host more than two lakh refugees<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but the government\u2019s churlish attitude to the Rohingya and other \u201cinconvenient\u201d refugees risks putting us in the global doghouse.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Had it been enacted, Bill would have placed India at the<\/span><b> forefront of asylum management in the world.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It would have vindicated our steadfast and immemorial<\/span><b> commitment to humanitarian<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and\u00a0 democratic values while dealing with refugees.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Taking up the Judiciary\u2019s Baton<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <\/span><b>1996, the Supreme Court of India<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> held that not just Indians but everybody living in India, irrespective of nationality, enjoys the inviolable<\/span><b> rights guaranteed by Articles 14, 20 and 21 of the Constitution of India.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On these grounds, the apex court, in the landmark case of <\/span><b>National Human Rights Commission vs State Of Arunachal Pradesh &#038; Anr<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">., stopped the forcible eviction of <\/span><b>Chakma refugees<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who had entered Arunachal Pradesh in 1995.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Court held that an application for asylum must be properly processed, and till a decision is made whether to grant or refuse asylum, the state c<\/span><b>annot forcibly evict an asylum seeker.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our judiciary, therefore, has already <\/span><b>pointed us towards the golden path:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> now we must scrupulously tread it.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet, at times, different judges have taken<\/span><b> radically different approaches<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which we saw aplenty in the Rohingya case.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>enactment and enumeration of refugee rights <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will reduce our reliance on judge-centric approaches \u2014 or, even worse, the whims of <\/span><b>Home Ministry bureaucrats, police officers and politicians.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The problems of refugees worldwide are problems that <\/span><b>demand international cooperation.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India, as a <\/span><b>pillar of the world community<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and as a significant pole in the emerging multipolar world, must play its own part \u2014 on its own soil as well as on the global stage \u2014 in this noble task, <\/span><b>devising solutions for refugees<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that offer blueprints beyond borders.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In so doing, we would uphold our own <\/span><b>finest traditions and the highest standards<\/b> <b>of our democracy, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">alongside demonstrating that we truly are what we have forever claimed to be: a <\/span><b>vishwaguru<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, striving inexorably to serve, in the words of Jawaharlal Nehru,<\/span><b> \u201cthe still larger cause of humanity\u201d.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a worthwhile aspiration for all of us who care about what India stands for, both at home and in the world.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"vc_button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/store.pw.live\/govt-entrance-exams\/upsc-books\/upsc-modules?utm_source=SEO&#038;utm_medium=PW+Live&#038;utm_campaign=UPSC+Modules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check Out UPSC Modules From PW Store<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India must <\/span><b>enact a National Asylum Law<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to honor its humanitarian traditions, provide consistent refugee protection, and <\/span><b>uphold democratic values on the global stage.<\/b><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100.1%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"border-style: solid; border-color: #000000; background-color: rgba(184, 165, 217, 0.53); text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 100%;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Mains Question:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/mains-answer-writing\/elucidate-indias-historical-and-contemporary-approach-towards-refugees-how-does-this-approach-align-with-indias-humanitarian-values-10-marks-150-words\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Q. 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But as it rises, we also run the risk of treating these people as figures in a statistical compilation, and not human beings with needs, fears, hopes and wants. Yet this, precisely, is what they are. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":115671,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"paper-wise":[],"subject":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/editorial-analysis\/115520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/editorial-analysis"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/editorial-analysis"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/editorial-analysis\/115520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115522,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/editorial-analysis\/115520\/revisions\/115522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115520"},{"taxonomy":"paper-wise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper-wise?post=115520"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=115520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}