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Rethinking International Protection: The Sovereign, the State, the Refugee (Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship) - Softcover

Book 51 of 77: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship

Puggioni, Raffaela

 
9781349694501: Rethinking International Protection: The Sovereign, the State, the Refugee (Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1349694509 ISBN 13: 9781349694501
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Synopsis

This book provides a critical account of the concept of international protection. The author questions the boundaries between protection and assistance, and challenges the dominant focus on state sovereignty. Drawing upon a broad range of sources, she scrutinises the central role played by the state in providing legal, social and economic protection, which entails positive obligations upon the state. Protection, in this context, does not simply mean protection from persecution, threats, and sustained violence, but emancipation. By focusing on the local and national contexts wherein protection is enacted, created and also contested, she combines the politics of protection with the practices of protection, with a special focus on Italy. The resulting arguments clarify the difference between the public responsibility to protect and the private desire to assist, between treating refugees as bearers of rights and considering them as objects of assistance. The author argues that the absenceof protection in Italy has encouraged many to leave and find protection in other EU countries.  This timely work is essential reading for students and scholars of migration, international relations and asylum politics as well as policy-makers.

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About the Author

Raffaela Puggioni is Assistant Professor of International Relations at ADA University, Azerbaijan. 

From the Back Cover

This book provides a critical account of the concept of international protection. The author questions the boundaries between protection and assistance, and challenges the dominant focus on state sovereignty. Drawing upon a broad range of sources, she scrutinises the central role played by the state in providing legal, social and economic protection, which entails positive obligations upon the state. Protection, in this context, does not simply mean protection from persecution, threats, and sustained violence, but emancipation. By focusing on the local and national contexts wherein protection is enacted, created and also contested, she combines the politics of protection with the practices of protection, with a special focus on Italy. The resulting arguments clarify the difference between the public responsibility to protect and the private desire to assist, between treating refugees as bearers of rights and considering them as objects of assistance.The author argues that the absence of protection in Italy has encouraged many to leave and find protection in other EU countries.  This timely work is essential reading for students and scholars of migration, international relations and asylum politics as well as policy-makers.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1349694509
ISBN 13 
9781349694501
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
244