Refugees and the myth of human rights : life outside the pale of the law
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Refugees and the myth of human rights : life outside the pale of the law
Routledge, 2017
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-193) and index
"First issued in paperback 2017" --T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
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Most Western liberal democracies are parties to the United Nations Refugees Convention and all are committed to the recognition of basic human rights, but they also spend billions fortifying their borders, detaining unauthorised immigrants, and policing migration. Meanwhile, public debate over the West's obligations to unauthorised immigrants is passionate, vitriolic, and divisive. Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights combines philosophical, historical, and legal analysis to clarify the key concepts at stake in the debate, and to demonstrate the threat posed by contemporary border regimes to rights protection and the rule of law within liberal democracies. Using the political philosophy of John Locke and Immanuel Kant the book highlights the tension in liberalism between partiality towards one's compatriots and the universalism of human rights and brings this tension to life through an examination of Hannah Arendt's account of the rise and decline of the modern nation-state. It provides a novel reading of Arendt's critique of human rights and her concept of the right to have rights. The book argues that the right to have rights must be secured globally in limited form, but that recognition of its significance should spur expansive changes to border policy within and between liberal states.
Table of Contents
- Introduction Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights: Life Outside the Pale of the Law
- Part I Part I
- Chapter 1 Scum of the Earth I
- Chapter 2 Rights and the Nation-state
- Chapter 3 of of Origins. In the German version of the book the title is 'Die Aporien der Menschenrechte', or 'The Aporias of the Rights of Man' (, 756 fn. 3).
- Part II Part II
- Chapter 4 Natural Law and the False Promise of a Universal Community of Equals
- Chapter 5 Liberalism's False Promise I: Locke
- Chapter 6 Liberalism's False Promise II: Kant
- Part III Part III
- Chapter 7 Scum of the Earth II: Contemporary Refugees
- Chapter 8 The International Human Rights Regime and the Sovereignty of States
- Chapter 9 The Right to Have Rights and a New Law on Earth
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