Format:
1 online resource (vii, 268 pages)
ISBN:
9781108588195
Content:
A highly topical volume investigating the political and moral complexities of refugee crises and the right of asylum.
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Who Is a Refugee? -- 2 What Is the Source of Our Obligations to Refugees? -- 3 What Do We Owe to Refugees? -- 4 Outline of the Book -- Chapter 1 Differentiating Refugees: Asylum, Sanctuary and Refuge -- 1 Two Pictures of Refugeehood -- 2 Contextualising the Debate: The Emergence and Development of the Modern Refugee Regime -- Lines of Descent -- Constructing the Modern Regime -- 3 The Refugee Regime, Legitimacy Repair and International Order -- Asylum -- Sanctuary -- Refuge -- 4 Conclusion -- Chapter 2 The State's Right to Exclude Asylum-Seekers and (Some) Refugees -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Citizens, Non-citizens and Common Good -- 3 Responsibilities for Refugees -- 4 When and Why to Exclude Asylum-Seekers and Refugees -- 5 The Atrophy of the Right to Exclude -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Asylum, Speech, and Tragedy -- 1 The Palliative Model -- 2 The Political Model -- 3 The Tragic Model -- Chapter 4 Border Rescue -- 1 Special and General Duties to Rescue -- 2 Border Rescue Does Not Cause Border Deaths -- 3 States Cause Border Deaths -- 4 Dangerous Migration as Forced Migration -- 5 Moral Responsibility as Duty Violation -- 6 Breadth: Why All Migrants in Need Have a Claim to Admittance -- 7 Grounding: Dangerous Migration as a Further Grounds for a Duty to Admit -- 8 Demandingness: Admitting Migrants Is not Costly -- 9 Moral Responsibility as Unnecessary Harm -- 10 The Andaman Question and the Moral Importance of Aeroplanes -- Chapter 5 Selecting Refugees -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Selection by Lottery? -- 3 Vulnerability as Grounds for Admission -- 4 The Receiving State's Perspective -- 5 Why Some Selection Criteria Are Inadmissible -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Refugees and the Right to Remain -- 1 Introduction.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108472159
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108459051
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781108472159
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
,
Sociology
Keywords:
Flüchtling
;
Philosophie
;
Politik
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=5985757
URL:
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Author information:
Miller, David 1946-
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