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Human Rights Violations in Ethiopia: The Case for Permanent Adjustment of Immigration Status for Ethiopians in the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

The Ethiopian Committee on Immigration
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Ethiopia is one of the oldest countries in the world. Except for a brief five year period of Italian occupation (1936-41), Ethiopia, in the span of its thousands of years of existence, was never conquered and administered by a foreign power. Therefore, the tradition of permanent emigration or seeking asylum in foreign countries is an alien concept to the Ethiopian people.

Ancient and medieval Ethiopia is depicted as having existed in isolation from contemporaneous states and empires. This attribution of isolationism, compactly expressed by Edward Gibbon’s oft quoted statement that “the Ethiopians slept nearly a thousand years, forgetful of the world by whom they were forgotten,” is not at all borne by historical facts.

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Research Article
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African Issues , Volume 12 , Issue 1-2 , Spring/Summer 1982 , pp. 16 - 21
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1982 

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Notes

1. Gibbon, Edward, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (New York: MacMillan, 1899), p. 64 Google Scholar.

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3. Amnesty International Report, AFR 25/09/78.

4. Africa Now (November 1981), pp. 43-44.

5. Yekatit (September 1979), Vol. III, No. 1, p. 5.

6. Africa Now loc. cit.; Washington Post (December 28, 1981).

7. Amnesty International, Report 1980, pp. 45-48.

8. Kirkpatrick, Jeane, UN Release, (October 2, 1981), A/36/PV24, pp. 124-25Google Scholar.

9. Ethiopia Gazette (Addis Ababa, 1981).

10. Gedlegiorgis, Feleke, UN Release (October 1, 1981), A/36/PV22, p. 47 Google Scholar.

11. Washington Post (December 31, 1981).

12. Kirkpatrick, loc. cit., p. 126.

13. Gedlegiorgis, loc. cit., pp. 36-57.

14. Kirkpatrick, loc. cit., p. 122.

15. Ibid., p. 123.

16. United States State Department, Human Rights Report (Washington, D. C: Government Printing Office, 1980).

17. Amnesty International, Report, 1981, p. 40.

18. Ibid., p. 41

19. Ibid.

20. Africa Now, loc. cit.

21. Ibid.

22. State Department Letter to the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (August 8, 1981).

23. Gedlegiorgis, loc. cit., p. 57.