Do refugees deserve to have rights? Although the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 bestowed rights to all people by virtue of their classification as human, as the late political theorist Hannah Arendt found out during her refugee period in World War II, it is not that simple-as a stateless refugee she had been interned in France. She discovered that, minus membership in a political community, a person cannot have access to legally protected rights to work, to vote, to get an education, among other rights. One must first have a “right to have rights”, whether civil, political or social. The authors offer critical readings of the “right to have rights” being heedful of subtleties, complexities, ambiguities, and potentialities that may be glossed over by existing interpretations of the phrase. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) Read Less