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11 ISIL Y.B. Int'l Human. & Refugee L. 312 (2011)
Refugee: The Semasiology of Definitional Dilemma

handle is hein.journals/isilyrbk11 and id is 318 raw text is: REFUGEE: THE SEMASIOLOGY OF DEFINITIONAL DILEMMA NAFEES AHMAD* I. INTRODUCTION Human mobility, movement and migration are embedded in the human nature since pre-socio-political crystallizations but that has become most conspicuous, covetous and cataclysmic in the twenty first century necessitated by the ever growing paradigmatic shift in its dialectics, dimensions and delineations in terms of understanding, interpretation and resolutions. Deviant to the causes whatsoever of displacement the biggest pain in one's life is to have been displaced from his or her country of origin in a manner that is fallible, fallacious and fatal. To uproot anybody from his land of habitual residence amounts to deny and deprive him from his or her right to usual live, right to historical culture, right to immemorial neighbourhood, right to perennial socialization, right to classic climate, right to psychological integration, right to mental stability, right to have ancestral identity, right to specific custom, right to geo-political predilections, right to be consulted in economic modules, right to participate in community development, right to good governance, right to rule of law, right to socio-economic development and right to leave and return, right not to be displaced and above all right to have rights. These are not merely rights but go beyond the rubrics of rights as inalienable entitlements, basic bonds, natural claims, fundamental freedoms and rudimental human rights. The vicious vicissitudes of global change has presented a picture of development which is murky, LL.M. Ph.D. Assistant Professor, South Asian University-New Delhi- 110021. I am immensely indebted to my home-maker Aaisha Khan, Advocate, B.Sc, MA, LLB, for her support and services rendered in my academic and intellectual pursuits. I teach International Refugee Law, Comparative Constitutional Law of SAARC Nations, Public International Law and International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law, Law of International Organizations, Minority Rights, Nationalism, Ethnicity, Sociology of Law and Law of Federal Constitutions.

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