Solving one refugee crisis merely produced new categories of stateless refugees.
Evidence
After the war it turned out that the Jewish question, which was considered the only insoluble one, was indeed solved—namely, by means of a colonized and then conquered territory—but this solved neither the problem of the minorities nor the stateless. On the contrary, like virtually all other events of our century, the solution of the Jewish question merely produced a new category of refugees, the Arabs, thereby increasing the number of the stateless and rightless by another 700,000 to 800,000 people. And what happened in Palestine within the smallest territory and in terms of hundreds of thousands was then repeated in India on a large scale involving many millions of people. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 703
Categorization
- ADDENDUM: The refugee/production-of-statelessness mechanism here parallels ‘On Sacrifice’ in showing how institutional ‘solutions’ spawn new categories of the excluded — a pattern of displacement recurring across scales.