The ethics and politics of asylum : liberal democracy and the response to refugees / Matthew J. Gibney.
"Countries throughout the world are grappling with the practical and moral issues raised by increasing numbers of refugees. Matthew Gibney's book asks how Western countries should respond to the claims of refugees who arrive on their territory, and relates the question to wider issues surr...
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.