The ethics of state responses to refugees / Bradley Hillier-Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hillier-Smith, Bradley, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees--Government policy--Moral and ethical aspects.

Refugees.

Emigration and immigration--Government policy--Moral and ethical aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 275 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.

Biography/History:

Bradley Hillier-Smith is a Philosopher, Researcher, and Teacher in Moral, Legal and Political Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, UK. His research specialises in migration ethics, the philosophy of human rights, and the ethics of forced displacement, and has been published in the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, and Politics and the Journal of Social Philosophy. Bradley is also a charity-worker and a political campaigner advocating for the rights, settlement, and protection of refugees. .

Contents:

Introduction

We innocent bystanders

Doing and allowing harm to refugees

Justifying harms to refugees

Direct and structural injustices

The situation of refugees

The harms of a human rights violation

Refugees, rights and rightlessness

duties of justice

positive duties to refugees

Conclusion: an ethical response to refugees

Postscript: the Ukrainian displacement.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 20, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Hillier-Smith, Bradley. Ethics of state responses to refugees

ISBN:

9781003508991

1003508995

9781040112403

1040112404

9781040112410

1040112412

Publisher Number:

40032424881

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Restricted for use by site license.