Refugees Now - Rethinking Borders, Hospitality, and Citizenship

This important new book explores the contemporary refugee crisis and the untold realities and experiences of refugees themselves. A team of top scholars offer a critical and necessary diagnosis of the challenges, complexities, and contradictions impacting our philosophical approaches to the contemporary figure of the refugee.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Sabeen Ahmed and Lisa Madura
Acknowledgments
Part I: Humanitarianism and Human Rights
1. Refugees and the Politics of Indignity
David Owen
2. Refugees and the Right to Politics
Nöelle McAfee
3. Humanitarian Melancholia: Humanitarianism and the Need for Morality of Thinking
Mladjo Ivanovic
Part II: Hospitality, Care, and Responsibility
4. Hospitality and the Political Economy of Care
Lisa Madura
5. Welcoming Refugees: Mindful Citizenship and the Political Responsibility of Hospitality
Jade Schiff
6. On the Limits of Hospitality: Arendt and Balibar on a Universal Right to Politics
Peg Birmingham
Part III: Refugee Detention and Exclusion Today
7. Abolish Refugee Detention: Rethinking International Law and Carceral Humanitarianism
Kelly Oliver
8. Beyond the Ethics of Admission: Statelessness, Refugee Camps, and Moral Obligations
Serena Parekh
9. Critiquing Agamben's Refugee: The Ontological Decolonization of Homo Sacer
Sabeen Ahmed
Part IV: Experiences of Immigration
10. P

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Sabeen Ahmed (Herausgeber), Lisa M. Madura (Herausgeber), Kelly Oliver (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 03.04.2019
• EAN: 9781786611635
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-163-5
• Seiten: 330
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 220 mm x 18 mm
• Gewicht: 440 g
• Illustration: 6 b/w illustrations
• Themen: Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; Human Rights, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights