No Refuge
Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 10 December 2020
- ISBN 9780197507995
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 140x211x30 mm
- Weight 408 g
- Language English 153
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Short description:
Drawing from extensive, eye-opening first-person accounts, No Refuge puts a spotlight on the millions of refugees worldwide who have to leave home but find nowhere to resettle. As political philosopher Serena Parekh argues, this is not just a problem for politicians. Citizens also have a moral duty to help resolve the global refugee crisis and to end the suffering and denial of human rights that refugee are forced to endure, often for years. While the media usually focus on the challenges that Western states have with the arrival of large numbers of asylum seekers and refugees, the real problem is that millions are stuck in inhumane conditions in refugee camps and urban centers, with little chance of finding a more permanent solution. Grounded in powerful testimony from refugees and meticulous research on the conditions in which so many suffer worldwide, No Refuge shows why, as states but also as citizens, we cannot afford to wait any longer to end this crisis.
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Syrians crossing the Mediterranean in ramshackle boats bound for Europe; Sudanese refugees, their belongings on their backs, fleeing overland into neighboring countries; children separated from their parents at the US/Mexico border--these are the images that the Global Refugee Crisis conjures to many. In the news we often see photos of people in transit, suffering untold deprivations in desperate bids to escape their countries and find safety. But behind these images, there is a second crisis--a crisis of arrival. Refugees in the 21st century have only three real options--urban slums, squalid refugee camps, or dangerous journeys to seek asylum--and none provide genuine refuge.
In No Refuge, political philosopher Serena Parekh calls this the second refugee crisis: the crisis of the millions of people who, having fled their homes, are stuck for decades in the dehumanizing and hopeless limbo of refugees camps and informal urban spaces, most of which are in the Global South. Ninety-nine percent of these refugees are never resettled in other countries. Their suffering only begins when they leave their war-torn homes. As Parekh urgently argues by drawing from numerous first-person accounts, conditions in many refugee camps and urban slums are so bleak that to make people live in them for prolonged periods of time is to deny them human dignity. It's no wonder that refugees increasingly risk their lives to seek asylum directly in the West.
Drawing from extensive first-hand accounts of life as a refugee with nowhere to go, Parekh argues that we need a moral response to these crises--one that assumes the humanity of refugees in addition to the challenges that states have when they accept refugees. Only once we grasp that the global refugee crisis has these two dimensions--the asylum crisis for Western states and the crisis for refugees who cannot find refuge--can we reckon with a response proportionate to the complexities we face. Countries and citizens have a moral obligation to address the structures that unjustly prevent refugees from accessing the minimum conditions of human dignity. As Parekh shows, there are ways we as citizens can respond to the global refugee crisis, and indeed we are morally obligated to do so.
Parekh...provides a valuable introduction to contemporary refugee issues, avoiding the jargon of the international refugee regime in favor of an informal, almost conversational approach...Her argument is indeed a moral one, that everyone must help ensure 'minimum conditions of human dignity' for all people. Since refugees are outside their own origin country, it falls to the more economically developed countries in the world to ensure those minimum conditions for them. The developed countries, she points out, 'are in a position to easily help,' as she calmly debunks the supposed dangers that refugees bring, whether in monetary costs, human security, or cultural coherence. Her description of the hazards in seeking asylum, the 'last hope' for many refugees, is appropriately grueling. Importantly, her discussion includes vivid case examples from the journalistic literature that underscore the pain, loss, and uncertainty of being a refugee...Highly recommended.
Table of Contents:
Preface: Turbulence
Introduction: A Tale of Two Refugee Crises
Part I: The First Crisis - The Crisis for Western Countries
Chapter 1: Understanding Refugees
Chapter 2: Moral Obligations Or Why We Should Help People Even if We Don't Like Them
Chapter 3: Reasons For and Against Accepting Refugees: A Philosophical Overview
Part II: The Second Crisis - The Crisis for Refugees
Chapter 4: Refugee Camps and Urban Settlements - The Problem We Have Created
Chapter 5: The Price We Demand for Asylum
Chapter 6: Structural Injustice
Conclusion: What Should I Do? What Should We Do?
