The people who are immigrating are families. These refugees are children, sons, daughters, mothers and fathers and yet states like Texas are looking at them as individuals. The neglect of the family coincides with Susan Okin's perspective about democracy needing the family to progress. The continuation to look at Syrian refugees as just refugees and not struggling families keeps freedom and equality from working on a political level and holds bak society in its entirety Tuesday, December 8, 2015
The Family, The Freedom, The Equality
As the aftermath of the Paris attacks continues tocover mass media, The United States has not changed their position on accepting Syrian refugees,but some of the states have. With the relocation of refugees becoming reality, states like Texas have declared that they will not be accepting refugees. In the article; Syrian Refugee Families Will Still Come to Texas, Despite Effort to Stop Them, by Vice News reporters explain the measures that Texas politicians have made in their attempt to keep the refugees out. The claim is that the refugees raise "concerns and safety issues" to Texians. State politicians have went as far as to hold a hearing for an injunction on the resettlement of refugees, something that the US has deemed unconstitutional. As problematic as Texas is, they do question the role of the family in politics.
The people who are immigrating are families. These refugees are children, sons, daughters, mothers and fathers and yet states like Texas are looking at them as individuals. The neglect of the family coincides with Susan Okin's perspective about democracy needing the family to progress. The continuation to look at Syrian refugees as just refugees and not struggling families keeps freedom and equality from working on a political level and holds bak society in its entirety
The people who are immigrating are families. These refugees are children, sons, daughters, mothers and fathers and yet states like Texas are looking at them as individuals. The neglect of the family coincides with Susan Okin's perspective about democracy needing the family to progress. The continuation to look at Syrian refugees as just refugees and not struggling families keeps freedom and equality from working on a political level and holds bak society in its entirety 
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You say that "states like Texas are looking at them as individuals." Do you mean that they are generalizing the refugees? Because if they were looking at them as individuals, then they would be looking at each person as an autonomous being, rather than as a unit that is threatening to their safety. If they are generalizing the refugees, then they are looking at the actions of a vast minority and condemning everyone for the minority's actions.
ReplyDeleteI would agree that not accepting Syrian refugees shows that the U.S does looks at the refugees as individuals and not families. I'm not sure that looking at them as families would improve much, however. If the man of a family has ISIS ties then I am sure the United States would still not allow his family to come in, due to recent threats and attacks.
ReplyDeleteMy personal beliefs aside, is there a possibility that it can be argued that it might be for the best not to accept refugee's into states I.E. Texas, where the general public is very hostile to letting the Syrian refugee's into the state and or country and could possible lead to violence?
ReplyDeleteI could see the concern but at the end of the day the US cannot tell refugees where they can and cannot migrate too. Stopping them from going into places like Texas would only feed into the idea that the states have more power than the government
DeleteNo, I meant that they are looking at them as individuals. Yes, they are generalizing ALL Muslims, but they are treating them as random people who want to leave the country, not as parents of children, not as brothers and sisters, but lone terrorist.
ReplyDeleteThis definitely has some connection with the state's ignorance of the importance of family, however, do you believe that refugees have rights to reside at any countries they migrated too? I do not believe Texas is right to refute all the refugees to migrate in, however meanwhile I do believe that there it is necessary for the state to process a security check to make sure those residents within the state's are safe and secure.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the government needs to have the final say on the matter as it shows unity as a country. Yes a lot of Americans do have divided views on the matter however having states like Texas do what they want will not help this and only make it worse. What do you think the best solution for all parties would include? What does it say about Americans that don't want these refugee's to come inside the United States?
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