Beschreibung:
Bradley Hillier-Smith is an Associate Lecturer in Moral, Legal and Political Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, UK. His research specializes 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.
This book appears at a time of intense debate on how states should respond to refugees, and provides an account of what an ethical response would be by developing an understanding of the moral duties that states have towards refugees.
Introduction Part 1: Negative Duties 1. We Innocent Bystanders 2. Doing and Allowing Harm to Refugees 3. Justifying Harms to Refugees 4. Direct and Structural Injustices Part 2: Positive Duties 5. The Situation of Refugees 6. The Harms of a Human Rights Violation 7. Refugees, Rights and Rightlessness 8. Duties of Justice 9. Positive Duties to Refugees Conclusion: An Ethical Response to Refugees Postscript: The Ukrainian Displacement. Bibliography Index