The Impact of the Relationship between Refugees and Forcibly Displaced Persons on Political Rights
Department of Political Sciences, Mutah University, Al-Karak, Jordan.
Abstract
Political rights are among the most important rights requiring specialised study, as they serve as a key criterion for assessing the degree of democracy within a political system and reveal the extent to which that system conforms to democratic principles, particularly freedom, equality, and participation in public affairs. Freedom cannot be fully realised without justice, justice re-quires participation, and meaningful participation depends on freedom. Polit-ical oppression can therefore lead to the violation or deprivation of the fun-damental rights and freedoms of refugees and forcibly displaced persons. Historically, political rights have been closely associated with major political transformations, including revolutions and the collapse of political systems. Consequently, various international conventions and national constitutions have sought to safeguard the political participation rights of refugees and forcibly displaced persons in their host countries. Against this background, it is important to examine whether a reciprocal relationship exists between the political participation of refugees and forcibly displaced persons and the pro-tection or restriction of their political rights in Jordan, and to determine whether their political participation has any impact on the rights afforded to them.