Refugees and the Ethics of Forced Displacement

by Serena Parekh

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 refugees into our countries. This book reframes this debate and shows why it is important to think ethically about people who will never be resettled and who live for prolonged periods outside of all political communities. Parekh shows why philosophers ought to be concerned with ethical norms that will help stateless people mitigate the harms of statelessness even while they remain formally excluded from states.The Open Access version of this book, available at //doi.org/10.4324/9781315883854, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Genres: Philosophy

160 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 25, 2016

Reviews

[Diana Ghigufa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Parekh uses contemporary and less contermporary ethical arguments used fo the right to asylum and causal and remedial responsibilities to argue for something that goes beyond the normal literature: the responsibility for encampment, for the creation of permament second class citizens, and the entrenchment and normalization of this modus operandi in dealing with migration flows.

[Stefanie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This short book contains a number of interesting ideas on the harms of extended displacement in refugee camps and how to assign responsibility for addressing these harms. It's an intellectual/philosophical read good for anyone with an understanding of issues impacting refugees and a desire to explore moral/philosophical arguments which might be used to support change.