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Toleration is one of the most studied concepts in contemporary
political theory and philosophy, yet the range of contemporary
normative prescriptions concerning how to do toleration or how to
be tolerant is remarkably narrow and limited. The literature is
largely dominated by a neo-Kantian moral-juridical frame, in which
toleration is a matter to be decided in terms of constitutional
rights. According to this framework, cooperation equates to public
reasonableness and willingness to engage in certain types of civil
moral dialogue. Crucially, this vision of politics makes no claims
about how to cultivate and secure the conditions required to make
cooperation possible in the first place. It also has little to say
about how to motivate one to become a tolerant person. Instead it
offers highly abstract ideas that do not by themselves suggest what
political activity is required to negotiate overlapping values and
interests in which cooperation is not already assured. Contemporary
thinking about toleration indicates, paradoxically, an intolerance
of politics. Montaigne and the Tolerance of Politics argues for
toleration as a practice of negotiation, looking to a philosopher
not usually considered political: Michel de Montaigne. For
Montaigne, toleration is an expansive, active practice of political
endurance in negotiating public goods across lines of value
difference. In other words, to be tolerant means to possess a
particular set of political capacities for negotiation. What
matters most is not how we talk to our political opponents, but
that we talk to each other across lines of disagreement. Douglas I.
Thompson draws on Montaigne's Essais to recover the idea that
political negotiation grows out of genuine care for public goods
and the establishment of political trust. He argues that we need a
Montaignian conception of toleration today if we are to negotiate
effectively the circumstances of increasing political polarization
and ongoing value conflict, and he applies this notion to current
debates in political theory as well as contemporary issues,
including the problem of migration and refugee asylum.
Additionally, for Montaigne scholars, he reads the Essais
principally as a work of public political education, and resituates
the work as an extension of Montaigne's political activity as a
high-level negotiator between Catholic and Huguenot parties during
the French Wars of Religion. Ultimately, this book argues that
Montaigne's view of tolerance is worth recovering and reconsidering
in contemporary democratic societies where political leaders and
ordinary citizens are becoming less able to talk to each other to
resolve political conflicts and work for shared public goods.
This special issue is the second of a two-part edited collection on
the privatisation of migration. The central thrust of the special
issue is a critical analysis of modern day manifestations of
private participation in immigration control such as through
companies which run detention and deportation programmes and
individual landlords, medical professionals and employers who
become part of immigration enforcement. In the chapters the authors
examine the role of private stakeholders and the political economy
in migration control.
A Christian theological interpretation of the border reality is a
neglected area of immigration study. The foremost contribution of A
Promised Land, A Perilous Journey is its focus on the theological
dimension of migration, beginning with the humanity of the
immigrant, a child of God and a bearer of his image. The nineteen
authors in this collection recognize that one characteristic of
globalization is the movement not only of goods and ideas but also
of people. The crossing of geographical borders confronts
Christians, as well as all citizens, with choices: between national
security and human insecurity, between sovereign national rights
and human rights, between citizenship and discipleship. Bearing
these global dimensions in mind, the essays in this book focus on
the particular problems of immigration across the U.S.-Mexico
border. The contributors to this volume include scholars as well as
pastors and lay people involved in immigration aid work.
Contributors: Oscar Andres Cardinal Rodriguez, Gioacchino Campese,
Daniel G. Groody, Jacqueline Hagan, Donald Senior, Peter C. Phan,
Alex Nava, Gustavo Gutierrez, Stephen Bevans, Robert Schreiter,
Giovanni Graziano Tassello, Patrick Murphy, Robin Hoover, Graziano
Battistella, Donald Kerwin, Raul Fornet-Betancourt, Olivia Ruiz
Marrujo, and Jorge E. Castillo Guerra.
This collective work sheds light on our understanding of the
notions of expatriation and migration. The main objective is to
highlight and critically examine the dichotomy that lies beyond
these terms. Based on field research by authors from four
continents, this book offers a global perspective on the social
distinction between the same human faces.
Twenty Years at Hull House, by the acclaimed memoir of social
reformer Jane Addams, is presented here complete with all
sixty-three of the original illustrations and the biographical
notes. A landmark autobiography in terms of opening the eyes of
Americans to the plight of the industrial revolution, Twenty Years
at Hull House has been applauded for its unflinching descriptions
of the poverty and degradation of the era. Jane Addams also details
the grave ill-health she suffered during and after her childhood,
giving the reader insight into the adversity which she would
re-purpose into a drive to alleviate the suffering of others. The
process by which Addams founded Hull House in Chicago is detailed;
the sheer scale and severity of the poverty in the city she and
others witnessed, the search for the perfect location, and the
numerous difficulties she and her fellow activists encountered
while establishing and maintaining the house are detailed.
Principally, this book comprises a conceptual analysis of the
illegality of a third-country national's stay by examining the
boundaries of the overarching concept of illegality at the EU
level. Having found that the holistic conceptualisation of
illegality, constructed through a combination of sources (both EU
and national law) falls short of adequacy, the book moves on to
consider situations that fall outside the traditional binary of
legal and illegal under EU law. The cases of unlawfully staying EU
citizens and of non-removable illegally staying third-country
nationals are examples of groups of migrants who are categorised as
atypical. By looking at these two examples the book reveals not
only the fragmentation of legal statuses in EU migration law but
also the more general ill-fitting and unsatisfactory categorisation
of migrants. The potential conflation of illegality with
criminality as a result of the way EU databases regulate the legal
regime of illegality of a migrant's stay is the first trend
identified by the book. Subsequently, the book considers the
functions of accessing legality (both instrumental and corrective).
In doing so it draws out another trend evident in the EU illegality
regime: a two-tier regime which discriminates on the basis of
wealth and the instrumentalisation of access to legality by Member
States for mostly their own purposes. Finally, the book proposes a
corrective rationale for the regulation of illegality through
access to legality and provides a number of normative suggestions
as a way of remedying current deficiencies that arise out of the
present supranational framing of illegality.
After a long time of neglect, migration has entered the arena of
international politics with a force. The 2018 Global Compact for
safe, orderly and regular migration (GCM) is the latest and most
comprehensive framework for global migration governance. Despite
these dynamics, migration is still predominantly framed as a
state-centric policy issue that needs to be managed in a top-down
manner. This book proposes a difference approach: A truly
multi-stakeholder, multi-level and rights-based governance with
meaningful participation of migrant civil society. Drawing on 15
years of participant observation on all levels of migration
governance, the book maps out the relevant actors, "invited" and
"invented" spaces for participation as well as alternative
discourses and framing strategies by migrant civil society. It thus
provides a comprehensive and timely overview on global migration
governance from below, starting with the first UN High Level
Dialogue in 2006, evolving around the Global Forum on Migration and
Development (GFMD) and leading up to the consultations for the
International Migration Review Forum in 2022.
Although Turkey is a secular state, it is often characterised as a
Muslim country. In her latest book, Lejla Voloder provides an
engaging and revealing study of a Bosniak community in Turkey, one
of the Muslim minorities actually recognised by the state in
Turkey. Under what circumstances have they resettled to Turkey? How
do they embrace Islam? How does one live as a Bosniak, a Turkish
citizen, a mother, a father, a member of a household, and as one
guided by Islam? The first book based on fieldwork to detail the
lives of members of the Bosnian and Bosniak diaspora in Turkey, A
Muslim Minority in Turkey makes a unique contribution to the study
of Muslim minority groups in Turkey and the Middle East.
This book explores the Afro-diasporic experiences of African
skilled migrants in Australia. It explores research participants'
experiences of migration and how these experiences inform their
lives and the lives of their family. It provides theory-based
arguments examining how mainstream immigration attitudes in
Australia impact upon Black African migrants through the mediums of
mediatised moral panics about Black criminality and acts of
everyday racism that construct and enforce their 'strangerhood'.
The book presents theoretical writing on alternate African
diasporic experiences and identities and the changing nature of
such identities. The qualitative study employed semi-structured
interviews to investigate multiple aspects of the migrant
experience including employment, parenting, family dynamics and
overall sense of belonging. This book advances our understanding of
the resilience exercised by skilled Black African migrants as they
adjust to a new life in Australia, with particular implications for
social work, public health and community development practices.
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