1st Edition

Refugees and the Ethics of Forced Displacement

By Serena Parekh Copyright 2017
172 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

This book is a philosophical analysis of the ethical treatment of refugees and stateless people, a group of people who, though extremely important politically, have been greatly under theorized philosophically. The limited philosophical discussion of refugees by philosophers focuses narrowly on the question of whether or not we, as members of Western states, have moral obligations to admit... Read more

Introduction 

1. The Moral Significance of The Refugee Regime 

2. Refugees in Contemporary Political Philosophy 

3. Hannah Arendt and the Ontological Deprivation of Statelessness 

4. Responsibility for the Forcibly Displaced 

Conclusion

Biography

Serena Parekh is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the Northeastern University, USA.

"The topic of Parekh's volume is a crucial one, and her response to that topic is insightful and powerful; I both hope and expect that further conversations about these issues will take her ideas seriously." --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews