Sosyal Adaletsizlik, İnsan Hakları ve “Mültecilik”

Abstract

The questions what justice is and how the justice in a state or in a person can be realized are two of the perennial questions of philosophy. While some philosophers consider justice in its relation to economics, politics and biopolitics, others deal it in its relation to human rights and emphasize the connection between the protection of human rights and the realization of justice. Some of the contemporary philosophers tackle the concept of justice, especially social justice in connection with human rights. Justice is an idea, a thought derived from cases or facts of injustice, as the human rights is an idea which is derived from the observation of violations of human rights that are state of affairs or facts. Within this context, social injustice is considered as a problem related to all basic rights that can be protected only directly. Although social injustice today is mostly considered as a problem of distribution of income or goods, it is also a philosophical, ethical, and political problem. Today, the global injustice in the world seems to be main reason of terror attacks, civil wars and migrations. It may be considered a problem of human rights for the reason that it gives rise to various violations of human rights degrading human value or dignity. Besides poverty, the ongoing territorial conflicts and civil wars are the main reasons of ‘refugee crisis’. We are facing today a steadily increasing human flow in the World. The refugees are supposed to be among the vulnerable groups. They do not enjoy social and economic rights of the host country, and that causes vulnerability. The women, children, disables, old people in the refugees suffer from multiple vulnerability. In this paper, going from the concept of social injustice, I will try identify which rights are basic rights, which are not, and to demonstrate the relationship between social injustice and human rights. Additionally, I will try to show up that the refugee problem is not only a economical and political problem, but also an ethical and philosophical problem.