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Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights - Life Outside the Pale of the Law (Paperback)
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Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights - Life Outside the Pale of the Law (Paperback)
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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.
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