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Zusatztext ’This is a penetrating analysis of the springs of human rights and human obligations. It is rigorously argued, and shows how refugees are treated as if they do not truly belong to the category of human beings whose human rights are relevant: that they are beyond the pale of the law. It shows the means by which refugees are unequal and unworthy of full recognition under (the) law.’ Julian Burnside, AO QC, Australia ’A significant contribution to the urgent debate about the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers by liberal states. A unique combination of practice and theory, this book embeds that treatment within a history of abuse and persecution and in a tradition of thought about the state, the nation, and human rights that is implicated in that abuse and persecution.’ Phillip Cole, University of the West of England, UK Informationen zum Autor Emma Larking is a Visiting Fellow in the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University. Klappentext Most Western liberal democracies are parties to the United Nations Refugees Convention and all are committed to the recognition of basic human rights! but they also spend billions fortifying their borders! detaining unauthorised immigrants! and policing migration. Meanwhile. Zusammenfassung This book combines philosophical, historical, and legal analysis to clarify the key concepts at stake in the debate over refugees and human rights, and to demonstrate the threat posed by contemporary border regimes to rights protection and the rule of law within liberal democracies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights: Life Outside the Pale of the Law; Part I Part I; Chapter 1 Scum of the Earth I; Chapter 2 Rights and the Nation-state; Chapter 3 of of Origins. In the German version of the book the title is ‘Die Aporien der Menschenrechte’, or ‘The Aporias of the Rights of Man’ (, 756 fn. 3).; Part II Part II; Chapter 4 Natural Law and the False Promise of a Universal Community of Equals; Chapter 5 Liberalism’s False Promise I: Locke; Chapter 6 Liberalism’s False Promise II: Kant; Part III Part III; Chapter 7 Scum of the Earth II: Contemporary Refugees; Chapter 8 The International Human Rights Regime and the Sovereignty of States; Chapter 9 The Right to Have Rights and a New Law on Earth;...
