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Refugees Now

Rethinking Borders, Hospitality, and Citizenship

Edited by Kelly Oliver; Lisa M. Madura and Sabeen Ahmed

This important new book examines the status of refugees from a philosophical perspective. The contributors explore the conditions faced by refugees and clarify the conceptual, practical, and ethical issues confronting the contemporary global community with respect to refugees. The book takes up topics ranging from practical matters, such as the social and political production of refugees, refugee status and the tension between citizen rights and human rights, and the handling of detention and deportation, to more conceptual and theoretical concerns, such as the ideology, rhetoric, and propaganda that sustain systems of exclusion and expulsion, to the ethical dimensions that invoke hospitality and transnational responsibility. Ideal for students and scholars in Political and Social Philosophy and Migration Studies more broadly, the book provides a critical commentary on material responses to contemporary refugee crises as a means of opening pathways to more pointed assessments of both the political and ideological underpinnings of statelessness.
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International
Pages: 330 • Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-78661-162-8 • Hardback • April 2019 • $166.00 • (£129.00)
978-1-78661-163-5 • Paperback • April 2019 • $56.00 • (£43.00)
978-1-78661-164-2 • eBook • April 2019 • $53.00 • (£41.00)
Subjects: Philosophy / Political, Philosophy / Social, Political Science / Human Rights, Philosophy / Ethics / Applied Ethics, Philosophy / Continental Philosophy
Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, USA.

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.

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. Political Refugees and Economic Migrants: A Distinction Without a Difference?
Chong Choe-Smith

11. The Rights of Immigrants and the Duties of Nations: On Cesar Chavez, Transnational Justice, and the Temporality of Rights
Eduardo Mendieta

12. The Origin that Never Was: The Loss of Heimat and New Beginnings
Gertrude Postl

13. Strangers to Ourselves: Contemporary Horizons
Julia Kristeva, translated by Lisa Walsh

Part V: Listening to Refugee Voices

14. I Am Not Your Canvas: Narratives, Nostalgia, and the (Re)claiming of Refugee Voices
Anna Gotlib

15. How to be a Refug(e)e for a Stranger?
Esther Huftless and Elisabeth Schaefer

16. Echotext. Between Here and There. A Meteoric Meditation: In Response to “How to be a Refuge(e) for a Stranger?”
Eva-Maria Aigner

Bibliography

Index

Far from being a demographic problem, the so-called refugee crisis is a moral and even more political challenge to the foundational values and principles of the international community – from dignity to hospitality, from human rights to humanitarian reason. This is what this beautifully constructed polyphonic opus convincingly demonstrates, making it an urgent reading for anyone concerned by the tragic fate of exiles in the contemporary world.
— Didier Fassin, Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study


Refugees Now

Rethinking Borders, Hospitality, and Citizenship

Cover Image
Hardback
Paperback
eBook
Summary
Summary
  • This important new book examines the status of refugees from a philosophical perspective. The contributors explore the conditions faced by refugees and clarify the conceptual, practical, and ethical issues confronting the contemporary global community with respect to refugees. The book takes up topics ranging from practical matters, such as the social and political production of refugees, refugee status and the tension between citizen rights and human rights, and the handling of detention and deportation, to more conceptual and theoretical concerns, such as the ideology, rhetoric, and propaganda that sustain systems of exclusion and expulsion, to the ethical dimensions that invoke hospitality and transnational responsibility. Ideal for students and scholars in Political and Social Philosophy and Migration Studies more broadly, the book provides a critical commentary on material responses to contemporary refugee crises as a means of opening pathways to more pointed assessments of both the political and ideological underpinnings of statelessness.
Details
Details
  • Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International
    Pages: 330 • Trim: 6¼ x 9
    978-1-78661-162-8 • Hardback • April 2019 • $166.00 • (£129.00)
    978-1-78661-163-5 • Paperback • April 2019 • $56.00 • (£43.00)
    978-1-78661-164-2 • eBook • April 2019 • $53.00 • (£41.00)
    Subjects: Philosophy / Political, Philosophy / Social, Political Science / Human Rights, Philosophy / Ethics / Applied Ethics, Philosophy / Continental Philosophy
Author
Author
  • Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, USA.

    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.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • 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. Political Refugees and Economic Migrants: A Distinction Without a Difference?
    Chong Choe-Smith

    11. The Rights of Immigrants and the Duties of Nations: On Cesar Chavez, Transnational Justice, and the Temporality of Rights
    Eduardo Mendieta

    12. The Origin that Never Was: The Loss of Heimat and New Beginnings
    Gertrude Postl

    13. Strangers to Ourselves: Contemporary Horizons
    Julia Kristeva, translated by Lisa Walsh

    Part V: Listening to Refugee Voices

    14. I Am Not Your Canvas: Narratives, Nostalgia, and the (Re)claiming of Refugee Voices
    Anna Gotlib

    15. How to be a Refug(e)e for a Stranger?
    Esther Huftless and Elisabeth Schaefer

    16. Echotext. Between Here and There. A Meteoric Meditation: In Response to “How to be a Refuge(e) for a Stranger?”
    Eva-Maria Aigner

    Bibliography

    Index

Reviews
Reviews
  • Far from being a demographic problem, the so-called refugee crisis is a moral and even more political challenge to the foundational values and principles of the international community – from dignity to hospitality, from human rights to humanitarian reason. This is what this beautifully constructed polyphonic opus convincingly demonstrates, making it an urgent reading for anyone concerned by the tragic fate of exiles in the contemporary world.
    — Didier Fassin, Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study


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