Refugees Now: Rethinking Borders, Hospitality, and Citizenship - Softcover

 
9781786611635: Refugees Now: Rethinking Borders, Hospitality, and Citizenship

Synopsis

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 topics ranging from practical matters, such as the social and political production of refugees, refugee status and the tension between citizen rights and human rights, and the handling of detention and deportation, to more conceptual and theoretical concerns, such as the ideology, rhetoric, and propaganda that sustain systems of exclusion and expulsion, to the ethical dimensions that invoke hospitality and transnational responsibility. Ideal for students and scholars in Political and Social Philosophy and Migration Studies more broadly, the book provides a critical commentary on material responses to contemporary refugee crises as a means of opening pathways to more pointed assessments of both the political and ideological underpinnings of statelessness.

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About the Author

Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, USA.

Lisa M. Madura is a Graduate Fellow in Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, USA.

Sabeen Ahmed is a Provost's Graduate Fellow and PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, USA.

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9781786611628: Refugees Now: Rethinking Borders, Hospitality, and Citizenship

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ISBN 10:  1786611627 ISBN 13:  9781786611628
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019
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