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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tunstall, Kate E., editor.

Series:

Oxford Amnesty lectures.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford amnesty lectures

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asylum, Right of.

Refugees--Government policy.

Refugees.

Emigration and immigration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There are few issues more urgently in need of analysis both in the UK and elsewhere than those relating to displacement, asylum and migration. In this volume, major figures in philosophy, political science, law, psychoanalysis, sociology and literature address these challenges.

Contents:

Part one : human rights

Finding a proper place for human rights / Bhikhu Parekh ; response by Bhikhu Parekh

Against an ideology of human rights / Slavoj Zizek ; response by Michael Ignatieff

Strangers in our midst : insearch of seven pillars of wisdon / Ali A. Mazrui ; response by Iftikhar H. Malik

Part two : displacement, asylum, migration

A thousand little Guantanamos : western states and measures to prevent the arrival of refugees / Matthew J. Gibney ; response by Milissa Lane

The repositioning of citizenship and alienage : emergent subjects and spaces for politics / Saskia Sassen ; response by Christian Joppke

Border crossings / Caryl Phillips ; response by Elleke Boehmer

The new global slave trade / harold Hongju Koh ; response by Koslowski

Displacement in Zion / Jacqueline Rose ; response by Ali Abunimah.

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-00291-6

1-280-76228-4

0-19-151314-8

OCLC:

476259495