Matthew J. Gibney

The Ethics and Politics of Asylum

Liberal Democracy and the Response to Refugees

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780521009379
• ISBN-10: 0521009375
• Artikelnr.: 21245722

Autorenporträt

Matthew J. Gibney is Elizabeth Colson Lecturer in Forced Migration at the Refugee Studies Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, and Official Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. He has published many articles on asylum and immigration and is the editor of Globalizing Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures (2003). He is the editor (with Randall Hansen) of a three-volume encyclopedia Immigration and Asylum: From 1900 to the Present (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Partiality: community, citizenship and the defence of closure
2. Impartiality: freedom, equality and open borders
3. The Federal Republic of Germany: the rise and fall of a right to asylum
4. The United Kingdom: the value of asylum
5. The United States: the making and breaking of a refugee consensus
6. Australia: restricting asylum, resettling refugees
7. From ideal to non-ideal theory: reckoning with the state, politics and consequences
8. Liberal democratic states and ethically defensible asylum practices
List of references
Index.