Mei, Lin
(2015)
Neither Compatriots Nor Refugees: Status
Discrimination Of Exiled Tibetans And The
Contradictory Faces Of The Republic Of
China (Taiwan).
International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies (IJAPS), 11 (2).
pp. 41-59.
ISSN ISSN: 1823-6243
Abstract
This article focuses on the double liminality that exiled Tibetans face in
Taiwan today. In the context of the international political system, refugees
or stateless people cannot be placed into any existing order of nation-states.
Refugees are in a state of liminality. With its national title "Republic of
China" (ROC), Taiwan has been placed in an ambiguous position with its
status as neither a nation-state nor a non-nation-state ever since the ROC
was expelled from the United Nations. The ROC is in a state of liminality
among states in the international order. In addition, Taiwan claims its
sovereignty over Tibet, despite losing this sovereignty in 1949 to the
communists. Taiwan's ambiguity of identity pushes the government neither
to treat Tibetan refugees in Taiwan as compatriots nor accept their status as
refugees. Placed under double liminal status, exiled Tibetan refugees in
Taiwan have been discriminated against and denied their entitled human
rights. This paper provides two cases to reveal the very real difficulty of
their situation in Taiwan. Both stories present the kind of dilemma the exiled
Tibetans face in Taiwan due to this double liminality
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