Can We Solve the Migration Crisis? (Series: Global Futures)
Author: Jacqueline Bhabha
Publisher: Polity Press
Print Length: 140 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Philosophy, Migration & Refugee Studies, Popular Science, Political Science, Social Science
Topic: Refugees & Forced Migration, Migration, Asylum & Asylum Seekers, Asylum & Refugee System, Immigration System, Crisis / Crises, Care, Collaboration & Participation, Compassion, Generosity, Interconnectedness, International Cooperation, Mobility & Immobility, Borders, Equality & Inequality, Politics & Power, Nationalism, Racist Nationalism, State Control, Immigration Control, Xenophobia
Every minute 24 people are forced to leave their homes and over 65 million are currently displaced world-wide. Small wonder that tackling the refugee and migration crisis has become a global political priority.
But can this crisis be resolved and if so, how? In this compelling essay, renowned human rights lawyer and scholar Jacqueline Bhabha explains why forced migration demands compassion, generosity and a more vigorous acknowledgement of our shared dependence on human mobility as a key element of global collaboration. Unless we develop humane ‘win-win’ strategies for tackling the inequalities and conflicts driving migration and for addressing the fears fuelling xenophobia, she argues, both innocent lives and cardinal human rights principles will be squandered in the service of futile nationalism and oppressive border control.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. A Crisis Like No Other?
2. A Duty of Care
3. The System at Breaking Point
4. Finding Workable and Humane Solutions
Further Reading
Notes
Jacqueline Bhabha is FXB Director of Research, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, and an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She received a first class honors degree and an M.Sc. from Oxford University, and a J.D. from the College of Law in London. From 1997 to 2001 Bhabha directed the Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago. Prior to 1997, she was a practicing human rights lawyer in London and at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. She has published extensively on issues of transnational child migration, refugee protection, children’s rights and citizenship. She is the editor of Children Without A State (2011), author of Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age (2014), and editor of Human Rights and Adolescence ( 2014). Bhabha serves on the board of the Scholars at Risk Network, the World Peace Foundation and the Journal of Refugee Studies. She is also a founder of the Alba Collective, an international women’s NGO currently working with rural women and girls in developing countries to enhance financial security and youth rights.
Source: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/profile/jacqueline-bhabha/
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