What Do We Owe to Refugees? (Series: Political Theory Today)
Author: David Owen
Publisher: Polity Press
Print Length: 140 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Popular Science, Political Science, Philosophy, Migration & Refugee Studies
Topic: Refugees & Forced Migration, Asylum & Asylum Seekers, Asylum & Refugee System, Ethics & Morality, Politics & Power, Dignity, War, Civil War, Environmental Degradation, Fragile State, State Formation, Protection, International Protection, International Cooperation, Refugees’ Roles & Self-Reliance, Responses to Refugees, Refugee Burden/Responsibility Sharing
Who are refugees? Who, if anyone, is responsible for protecting them? What forms should this protection take? In a world of people fleeing from civil wars, state failure, and environmental disasters, these are ethically and politically pressing questions.
In this book, David Owen reveals how the contemporary politics of refuge is structured by two rival historical pictures of refugees. In reconstructing this history, he advocates an understanding of refugeehood that moves us beyond our current impasse by distinguishing between what is owed to refugees in general and what is owed to different types of refugee. He provides an account of refugee protection and the forms of international cooperation required to implement it that is responsive to the claims of both refugees and states.
At a time when refugee protection is once again prominent on the international agenda, this book offers a guide to understanding the challenges this topic raises and shows why addressing it matters for all of us.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Prologue: A Tale of Two Ships
Introduction
1. Picturing Refugees
2. Who Are Refugees?
3. Responsibility for Refugees
4. Predicaments of Protection
Notes
References
David Owen is Professor of Social and Political Philosophy within the School of Economic, Social and Political Sciences at the University of Southampton. As a social and political philosopher, his interests range from abstract questions concerning justice, democracy and power to more concrete issues concerning citizenship, multiculturalism and migration in contemporary global politics. He has also worked on post-Kantian traditions of philosophy in Europe and America, especially Nietzsche. In recent years, he has developed interests in how European imperialism and its continuing legacies shape contemporary politics and political thought, and in non-Western traditions of political thought. His recent books include What do we owe to refugees? (Polity, 2020), Prospects for Citizenship, co-authored with Gerry Stoker et al. (Bloomsbury Academic, 2011), Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality (Acumen, 2007) and two co-edited volumes Multiculturalism and Political Theory (Cambridge University Press 2007) and Recognition and Power (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Source: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/cdf/about/steering-group/david-owen.page
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