Journal of Identity and Migration Studies Volume 12, number 2, 2018 81 Temporary Protected Status for the Nationals of the Third Countries and Stateless Persons: A Notion to be Promoted in Fighting Xenophobia On the memory of the Sturma’s Romanian Jews sunk in the Black Sea Lia POP and Irina POP Abstract. The Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is one of the key-notion in the ultra- contemporary debates related with the migrants and refugees’ issues. It is the politico- judicial notion of human solidarity and democratic support in cases of political disasters. It is the practical alternative to the xenophobic ideas and attitudes enrooted in the forgetfulness of the tragedies of mankind and solutions commonly agreed to prevent or fight them. It is also the obvious results of the public confusions. The present paper is an attempt to draw the attention to its political meanings and dimensions, as well as, to remember a collective tragedy, the Sturma, as a case for which an active mechanism as TPS could have been the political savior mechanism. It is a call for the public support in immediately saving the people in risks of political persecutions or executions. Keywords: Temporary Protection Status, Asylum procedures, Sturma case Introductive considerations There are four main reasons to insist on the TPS, meanings and role (i) the limited covering in the Romanian media; (ii) the political complexity of the mechanism itself which made them hardly to be used; (iii) the TPS actuality in the context of raising xenophobia in the world, Europe included; (iv) the human tragedies are too rarely reminded. To them a conjectural factor added, in the spring 2018, (v) a study on the TPS use in the US under Trump administration. (i)Because of the technical meaning of the TPS the single channel to familiarize the public with it is the media. Or, the Romanian media eluded the notion of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) of a third country national or the stateless persons, as a status complementary to these of refugee or subsidiary protection. Nevertheless, under