The ethics and politics of asylum : liberal democracy and the response to refugees
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 surrounding immigration, citizenship and the responsibilities of democracies. Examining policy in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom and Australia, this book offers an important contribution to a highly topical subject
Print Book, English, 2004
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2004
Electronic books
x, 287 pages ; 24 cm
9780521804172, 9780521009379, 9786610541546, 0521804175, 0521009375, 661054154X
53075679
Partiality: community, citizenship and the defence of closure
Impartiality: freedom, equality and open borders
The federal republic of Germany : the rise and fall of a right to asylum
The United Kingdom: the value of asylum
The United States: the making and breaking of a refugee consensus
Australia: restricting asylum, resettling refugees
From ideal to non-ideal theory: reckoning with the state, politics and consequences
Liberal democratic states and ethically defensible asylum practices
Based on the author's thesis--Cambridge University
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