Human rights attach to national citizenship, leaving the stateless unprotected

Evidence

Those who have been trying to help Issa discover what both Douzinas and Agamben have remarked upon: that humanity comes to be equated with national citizenship and rights follow from this equation. Human rights are national rights. They do not exist without the guarantees only nations can give. As a stateless person, Issa falls outside this protection. The excluded have no rights. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 333

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the Agamben/Douzinas claim that rights are national, not universal — the conceptual core of the excluded/stateless figure in the war-on-terror novel.
• QUESTION: How does this national-rights framing refract onto Changez (The Reluctant Fundamentalist), who is a legal citizen but culturally denationalized — does Morey’s excluded-figure category extend to him?
• XREF: connects to: Rights are exercised through group membership like citizenship, not universal humanity — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 2059; Mutual protection among states, not principle, governs UN human rights votes; Human rights law recognizes only suffering to natural being, not civil harm (+5 more)