Displacement, asylum, migration : the Oxford Amnesty lectures 2004 / edited by Kate E. Tunstall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tunstall, Kate E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees.

Human rights.

Emigration and immigration.

Physical Description:

xv, 353 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

There are few issues more urgently in need of intelligent analysis both in the UK and elsewhere than those relating to displacement, asylum, and migration. In this volume, based on the 2004 Oxford Amnesty Lectures, major figures in philosophy, political science, law, psychoanalysis, sociology, and literature address the challenges that displacement, asylum, and migration pose to our notions of human rights. Each lecture is accompanied by a critical response from another leading thinker in the field.

The volume contains lectures by Bhikhu Parekh, Slavoj Zizek, Ali A. Mazrui, Matthew J. Gibney, Saskia Sassen, Caryl Phillips, Harold Hongju Koh, and Jacqueline Rose, with critical responses from Seyla Benhabib, Michael Ignatieff, Iftikhar H. Malik, Melissa Lane, Christian Joppke, Elleke Boehmer, Rey Koslowski, and Ali Abunimah. This is the twelfth volume of Oxford Amnesty Lectures to be published since 1992.

Contents:

Finding a proper place for human rights

Against an ideology of human rights

Strangers in our midst : in search of seven pillars of wisdowm

A thousand little Guantanamos : western states and measures to prevent the arrival of refugees

The repositioning of citizenship and alienage : emergent subjects and spaces for politics

Border crossings

The new global slave trade

Displacement in Zion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-344) and index.

ISBN:

0192807242

OCLC:

64098427

Publisher Number:

9780192807243