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Neither Compatriots Nor Refugees: Status Discrimination Of Exiled Tibetans And The Contradictory Faces Of The Republic Of China (Taiwan)

This article focuses on the double liminality that exiled Tibetans face in Taiwan today. In the context of the international political system, refugees or stateless people cannot be placed into any existing order of nation-states. Refugees are in a state of liminality. With its national title &qu...

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Main Author: Mei, Lin
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Published: Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM Press) 2015
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P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General)
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spelling my.usm.eprints.40872 http://eprints.usm.my/40872/ Neither Compatriots Nor Refugees: Status Discrimination Of Exiled Tibetans And The Contradictory Faces Of The Republic Of China (Taiwan) Mei, Lin P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General) This article focuses on the double liminality that exiled Tibetans face in Taiwan today. In the context of the international political system, refugees or stateless people cannot be placed into any existing order of nation-states. Refugees are in a state of liminality. With its national title "Republic of China" (ROC), Taiwan has been placed in an ambiguous position with its status as neither a nation-state nor a non-nation-state ever since the ROC was expelled from the United Nations. The ROC is in a state of liminality among states in the international order. In addition, Taiwan claims its sovereignty over Tibet, despite losing this sovereignty in 1949 to the communists. Taiwan's ambiguity of identity pushes the government neither to treat Tibetan refugees in Taiwan as compatriots nor accept their status as refugees. Placed under double liminal status, exiled Tibetan refugees in Taiwan have been discriminated against and denied their entitled human rights. This paper provides two cases to reveal the very real difficulty of their situation in Taiwan. Both stories present the kind of dilemma the exiled Tibetans face in Taiwan due to this double liminality Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM Press) 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/40872/1/Art3-Edit-41-59.pdf Mei, Lin (2015) Neither Compatriots Nor Refugees: Status Discrimination Of Exiled Tibetans And The Contradictory Faces Of The Republic Of China (Taiwan). International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies (IJAPS), 11 (2). pp. 41-59. ISSN ISSN: 1823-6243 http://ijaps.usm.my/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Art3-Edit-41-59.pdf
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Mei, Lin
Neither Compatriots Nor Refugees: Status Discrimination Of Exiled Tibetans And The Contradictory Faces Of The Republic Of China (Taiwan)
description This article focuses on the double liminality that exiled Tibetans face in Taiwan today. In the context of the international political system, refugees or stateless people cannot be placed into any existing order of nation-states. Refugees are in a state of liminality. With its national title "Republic of China" (ROC), Taiwan has been placed in an ambiguous position with its status as neither a nation-state nor a non-nation-state ever since the ROC was expelled from the United Nations. The ROC is in a state of liminality among states in the international order. In addition, Taiwan claims its sovereignty over Tibet, despite losing this sovereignty in 1949 to the communists. Taiwan's ambiguity of identity pushes the government neither to treat Tibetan refugees in Taiwan as compatriots nor accept their status as refugees. Placed under double liminal status, exiled Tibetan refugees in Taiwan have been discriminated against and denied their entitled human rights. This paper provides two cases to reveal the very real difficulty of their situation in Taiwan. Both stories present the kind of dilemma the exiled Tibetans face in Taiwan due to this double liminality
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title Neither Compatriots Nor Refugees: Status Discrimination Of Exiled Tibetans And The Contradictory Faces Of The Republic Of China (Taiwan)
title_short Neither Compatriots Nor Refugees: Status Discrimination Of Exiled Tibetans And The Contradictory Faces Of The Republic Of China (Taiwan)
title_full Neither Compatriots Nor Refugees: Status Discrimination Of Exiled Tibetans And The Contradictory Faces Of The Republic Of China (Taiwan)
title_fullStr Neither Compatriots Nor Refugees: Status Discrimination Of Exiled Tibetans And The Contradictory Faces Of The Republic Of China (Taiwan)
title_full_unstemmed Neither Compatriots Nor Refugees: Status Discrimination Of Exiled Tibetans And The Contradictory Faces Of The Republic Of China (Taiwan)
title_sort neither compatriots nor refugees: status discrimination of exiled tibetans and the contradictory faces of the republic of china (taiwan)
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