Displacement, Asylum, Migration: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2004
There are few issues more urgently in need of intelligent analysis 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.
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Displacement, Asylum, Migration: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2004
There are few issues more urgently in need of intelligent analysis 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.
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Displacement, Asylum, Migration: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2004

Displacement, Asylum, Migration: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2004

by Kate E. Tunstall (Editor)
Displacement, Asylum, Migration: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2004

Displacement, Asylum, Migration: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2004

by Kate E. Tunstall (Editor)

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There are few issues more urgently in need of intelligent analysis 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.

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ISBN-13: 9780192807243
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 04/13/2006
Series: Oxford Amnesty Lectures
Pages: 370
Product dimensions: 7.72(w) x 5.14(h) x 0.99(d)

About the Author

Kate E. Tunstall is Fellow in French at Worcester College, Oxford.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Kate E. TunstallPart One: Human Rights1. Finding a Proper Place for Human Rights, Bhikhu Parekh (Response by Seyla Benhabib)2. Against an Ideology of Human Rights, Slavoj Zizek (Response by Michael Ignatieff)3. Strangers in our Midst, Ali A. Mazrui (Response by Iftikhar H. Malik)Part Two: Displacement, Asylum, Migration4. A Thousand Little Guantanamos: Western States and Measures to Prevent the Arrival of Refugees, Matthew J. Gibney (Response by Melissa Lane)5. 1. The Repositioning of Citizenship and Alienage: Emergent Subjects and Spaces for Politics, Saskia Sassen (Response by Christian Joppke)6. Border Crossings, Caryl Phillips (Response by Elleke Boehmer)7. The New Global Slave Trade, Harold Hongju Koh (Response by Rey Koslowski)8. Displacement in Zion, Jacqueline Rose (Response by Ali Abunimah)
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