Refugees now : rethinking borders, hospitality, and citizenship

Refugees now : rethinking borders, hospitality, and citizenship / edited by Kelly Oliver, Lisa M. Madura, and Sabeen Ahmed.

This important new book examines the status of refugees from a philosophical perspective. The contributors explore the conditions faced by refugees and clarify the conceptual, practical, and ethical issues confronting the contemporary global community with respect to refugees. The book takes up topi...

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Other Authors: Oliver, Kelly, 1958- (Editor), Madura, Lisa M. (Editor), Ahmed, Sabeen, 1991- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2019]
Subjects:
Refugees > Civil rights.
Refugees > Government policy.
Refugees > Legal status, laws, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Refugees and the politics of indignity / David Owen
  • Refugees and the right to politics / Nöelle McAfee
  • Humanitarian melancholia : humanitarianism and the need for morality of thinking / Mladjo Ivanovic
  • Hospitality and the political economy of care / Lisa Madura
  • Welcoming refugees : mindful citizenship and the political responsibility of hospitality / Jade Schiff
  • On the limits of hospitality : Arendt and Balibar on a universal right to politics / Peg Birmingham
  • Abolish refugee detention : rethinking international law and carceral humanitarianism / Kelly Oliver
  • Beyond the ethics of admission : statelessness, refugee camps, and moral obligations / Serena Parekh
  • Critiquing Agamben's refugee : the ontological decolonization of Homo Sacer / Sabeen Ahmed
  • Political refugees and economic migrants : a distinction without a difference? / Chong Choe-Smith
  • The rights of immigrants and the duties of nations : on Cesar Chavez, transnational justice, and the temporality of rights / Eduardo Mendieta
  • The origin that never was : the loss of Heimat and new beginnings / Gertrude Postl
  • Strangers to ourselves : contemporary horizons / Julia Kristeva
  • I am not your canvas : narratives, nostalgia, and the (re)claiming of refugee voices / Anna Gotlib
  • How to be a refug(e)e for a stranger? / Esther Huftless and Elizabeth Schaefer
  • Between here and there : a meteoric meditation : I response to "How to be a refuge(e) for a stranger? / Eva-Maria Aigner.

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