Abstract
The international state system has long been the result of an uneasy relationship between communitarian and cosmopolitan values. The refugee brings to the fore the very tension between the state prerogative to exclude and the human rights imperative to include. I first look at the idea of ‘rights’ in order to ask what rights refugees may rely on and how their position between states discriminates their ability to enjoy supposedly universal human rights. I argue tat any attempts at refugee protection are made in the interests of national and international security, not human security. Hence a pragmatic approach to ensuring that the human rights of refugees are protected needs to acknolwedge the workings of the international system and attempt to formulate a feasible refugee policy within it.
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