War Refugees: Risk, Justice, and Moral Responsibility - Couverture rigide

Kling, Jennifer

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1498562485 ISBN 13 : 9781498562485

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2019

Synopsis

The current refugee crisis is unparalleled in history in its size and severity. According to the UNHCR, there are roughly 67 million refugees worldwide, the vast majority of whom are refugees as the result of wars and other military actions. This social and political crisis cries out for normative explanation and analysis. Morally and politically, how should we understand the fact that 1 in every 122 humans is a refugee? How should we respond to it, and why?

Jennifer Kling argues that war refugees have suffered, and continue to suffer, a series of harms, wrongs, and oppressions, and so are owed recompense, restitution, and aid-as a matter of justice-by sociopolitical institutions around the world. She makes the case that war refugees should be viewed and treated differently than migrants, due to their particular circumstances, but that their circumstances do not wholly alleviate their own moral responsibilities. We must stop treating refugees as objects to be moved around on the global stage, Kling contends, and instead see them as people, with their own subjective experiences of the world, who might surprise us with their words and works.

While targeted toward students and scholars of philosophy, War Refugees: Risk, Justice, and Moral Responsibility will also be of interest to those working in political science, international relations, and foreign policy analysis, and, more broadly, to anyone who is interested in thinking critically about the ongoing refugee crisis.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jennifer Kling is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and director of the Center for Legal Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA. She is the author of War Refugees: Risk, Justice, and Moral Responsibility (Lexington Books, 2019) and co-author of Racist, Not Racist, Antiracist: Language and the Dynamic Disaster of American Racism (Lexington Books, 2022).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1498562485
• ISBN 13: 9781498562485
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 132
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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