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The Ethics and Politics of Asylum : Liberal Democracy and the Response to Refugees.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (299 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780511210563
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 172/.2
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Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Defining refugees and other claimants for entrance -- Refugees -- Asylum seekers -- Economic migrants -- Family reunion -- The requirements of a political theory -- Conclusion -- 1 Partiality: community, citizenship and the defence of closure -- The political community and foreigners -- Partiality and refugees -- The state: territory, identity, agency -- What gives the state the right to exclusive use of the territory it occupies? -- What is shared by citizens that distinguishes them from outsiders? -- The political account of membership -- The modified partialist account of membership -- Are states responsible for the harm they cause? -- Assumption I: the West and the creation of refugees -- Assumption II: inflicting harm and failing to aid -- Conclusion -- 2 Impartiality: freedom, equality and open borders -- Liberals and utilitarians -- The force of impartiality -- Liberal inconsistencies? -- Open borders and the welfare state -- Impartiality versus partiality -- Conclusion -- 3 The Federal Republic of Germany: the rise and fall of a right to asylum -- The state and entrance: 1949-70 -- Rechtsstaat -- Capitalist state -- Nation-state -- European state -- The emergence of a crisis: 1970-93 -- Withdrawing the right of asylum -- The aftermath of reform -- Conclusion -- 4 The United Kingdom: the value of asylum -- The state and entrance: 1945-75 -- Capitalist state -- Commonwealth state -- Political community -- State of refuge -- European state -- Commonwealth versus political community: 1961-81 -- Political community versus refuge: 1979-95 -- The political rise of asylum: 1996-2002 -- Conclusion -- 5 The United States: the making and breaking of a refugee consensus -- The aftermath of war and the origins of US refugee policy.
The shape of immigration control -- Ethnic pressure groups -- National identity -- The responsibilities of leadership -- Ordered tension': the institutional framework -- The 1948 Displaced Persons Act and beyond -- The Cold War and the politics of inclusion -- The end of Cold War consensus -- The reassertion of Congress -- The decreasing utility of the Cold War refugee -- The US as a country of first asylum -- Unequal protection and the rise of the courts -- The new era in responses to refugees -- Resettlement -- Asylum -- 6 Australia: restricting asylum, resettling refugees -- The state and entrance: 1945-75 -- The quest for legitimacy -- State of security -- Capitalist state -- Nation-state -- Responses to refugees between 1975 and 1996 -- A European nation? -- National interests and refugee admissions -- Controlling entry -- Tampa and beyond -- The Tampa incident -- A sea change? -- The question of justifiability -- Conclusion -- 7 From ideal to non-ideal theory: reckoning with the state, politics and consequences -- Challenges of agency: from ideal to non-ideal theory -- The institutional challenge: reckoning with the character of the modern state -- The idea of the state -- The practical limitations of the modern state -- The adapting agent -- National agent -- Democratic agent -- Economic agent -- Implications of the state as a particularistic agent -- The political challenge: avoiding a backlash -- The needs of the claimants -- Determining who is a refugee -- The wealth of the state -- Unemployment and housing -- Ethnic affinity -- Integration history -- The actions of other states -- Control -- The ethical challenge: unintended consequences -- Conclusion -- 8 Liberal democratic states and ethically defensible asylum practices -- Defining humanitarianism -- The advantages of humanitarianism -- Objections to the humanitarian principle.
The practical requirements of humanitarianism -- The first responsibility: humanitarianism within current constraints -- Humanitarianism and the claims of asylum seekers -- Humanitarianism and the issue of resettlement -- Practical implications -- Humanitarianism and the duty to challenge current constraints -- Reshaping public opinion -- Participating in resettlement sharing -- Tackling the causes of forced migration -- Rights versus asylum -- National security versus asylum -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
Summary: Over the last two decades, asylum has become a highly charged political issue across developed countries. This book draws upon political and ethical theory and an examination of the experiences of the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom and Australia to consider how to respond to the challenges of asylum.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Defining refugees and other claimants for entrance -- Refugees -- Asylum seekers -- Economic migrants -- Family reunion -- The requirements of a political theory -- Conclusion -- 1 Partiality: community, citizenship and the defence of closure -- The political community and foreigners -- Partiality and refugees -- The state: territory, identity, agency -- What gives the state the right to exclusive use of the territory it occupies? -- What is shared by citizens that distinguishes them from outsiders? -- The political account of membership -- The modified partialist account of membership -- Are states responsible for the harm they cause? -- Assumption I: the West and the creation of refugees -- Assumption II: inflicting harm and failing to aid -- Conclusion -- 2 Impartiality: freedom, equality and open borders -- Liberals and utilitarians -- The force of impartiality -- Liberal inconsistencies? -- Open borders and the welfare state -- Impartiality versus partiality -- Conclusion -- 3 The Federal Republic of Germany: the rise and fall of a right to asylum -- The state and entrance: 1949-70 -- Rechtsstaat -- Capitalist state -- Nation-state -- European state -- The emergence of a crisis: 1970-93 -- Withdrawing the right of asylum -- The aftermath of reform -- Conclusion -- 4 The United Kingdom: the value of asylum -- The state and entrance: 1945-75 -- Capitalist state -- Commonwealth state -- Political community -- State of refuge -- European state -- Commonwealth versus political community: 1961-81 -- Political community versus refuge: 1979-95 -- The political rise of asylum: 1996-2002 -- Conclusion -- 5 The United States: the making and breaking of a refugee consensus -- The aftermath of war and the origins of US refugee policy.

The shape of immigration control -- Ethnic pressure groups -- National identity -- The responsibilities of leadership -- Ordered tension': the institutional framework -- The 1948 Displaced Persons Act and beyond -- The Cold War and the politics of inclusion -- The end of Cold War consensus -- The reassertion of Congress -- The decreasing utility of the Cold War refugee -- The US as a country of first asylum -- Unequal protection and the rise of the courts -- The new era in responses to refugees -- Resettlement -- Asylum -- 6 Australia: restricting asylum, resettling refugees -- The state and entrance: 1945-75 -- The quest for legitimacy -- State of security -- Capitalist state -- Nation-state -- Responses to refugees between 1975 and 1996 -- A European nation? -- National interests and refugee admissions -- Controlling entry -- Tampa and beyond -- The Tampa incident -- A sea change? -- The question of justifiability -- Conclusion -- 7 From ideal to non-ideal theory: reckoning with the state, politics and consequences -- Challenges of agency: from ideal to non-ideal theory -- The institutional challenge: reckoning with the character of the modern state -- The idea of the state -- The practical limitations of the modern state -- The adapting agent -- National agent -- Democratic agent -- Economic agent -- Implications of the state as a particularistic agent -- The political challenge: avoiding a backlash -- The needs of the claimants -- Determining who is a refugee -- The wealth of the state -- Unemployment and housing -- Ethnic affinity -- Integration history -- The actions of other states -- Control -- The ethical challenge: unintended consequences -- Conclusion -- 8 Liberal democratic states and ethically defensible asylum practices -- Defining humanitarianism -- The advantages of humanitarianism -- Objections to the humanitarian principle.

The practical requirements of humanitarianism -- The first responsibility: humanitarianism within current constraints -- Humanitarianism and the claims of asylum seekers -- Humanitarianism and the issue of resettlement -- Practical implications -- Humanitarianism and the duty to challenge current constraints -- Reshaping public opinion -- Participating in resettlement sharing -- Tackling the causes of forced migration -- Rights versus asylum -- National security versus asylum -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.

Over the last two decades, asylum has become a highly charged political issue across developed countries. This book draws upon political and ethical theory and an examination of the experiences of the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom and Australia to consider how to respond to the challenges of asylum.

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