THE CONDITION OF REFUGEES IN THE PRESENT DAYS AND THE ROLE OF HUMAN RIGHTS:

AN ANALYSIS FROM PROGRESSIST COSMOPOLITANISM

Abstract

This article contextualizes the migratory phenomenon and, more specifically, the actual conditions of the subversive “figure” of refugees in the present days. In this sense, the central problem lies in the question about the role of human rights in the possibility of building a progressive cosmopolitan society facing the intensification of forced displacements and the number of refugees in the world. For this, the phenomenological method and the technique of bibliographic research are used. The objective is to identify some alternative capable of producing a change in the way of understanding the condition of refugees, who are seen, oftentimes, as “risk subjects” in the current world scenario marked by “fear of the stranger”. It is precisely this fact that has led to the construction of austere, exclusionary and rights-violating state policies in various countries of the world. From this perspective, the preliminary results of this scientific investigation demonstrate that the international protection of human rights can contribute in the construction of a progressive cosmopolitan perspective as an alternative to the current adverse political scenario generated by the accentuated migratory phenomenon of refuge. Indeed, it is argued that the best way out of the new social conjuncture is to reinforce respect for human diversity and to move away from the traditional paradigms of the sovereign modern State.