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No Refuge - Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis (Hardcover)
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No Refuge - Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis (Hardcover)
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Syrians crossing the Mediterranean in ramshackle boats bound for
Europe; Sudanese refugees, their belongings on their backs, fleeing
overland into neighboring countries; children separated from their
parents at the US/Mexico border-these are the images that the
Global Refugee Crisis conjures to many. In the news we often see
photos of people in transit, suffering untold deprivations in
desperate bids to escape their countries and find safety. But
behind these images, there is a second crisis-a crisis of arrival.
Refugees in the 21st century have only three real options-urban
slums, squalid refugee camps, or dangerous journeys to seek
asylum-and none provide genuine refuge. In No Refuge, political
philosopher Serena Parekh calls this the second refugee crisis: the
crisis of the millions of people who, having fled their homes, are
stuck for decades in the dehumanizing and hopeless limbo of
refugees camps and informal urban spaces, most of which are in the
Global South. Ninety-nine percent of these refugees are never
resettled in other countries. Their suffering only begins when they
leave their war-torn homes. As Parekh urgently argues by drawing
from numerous first-person accounts, conditions in many refugee
camps and urban slums are so bleak that to make people live in them
for prolonged periods of time is to deny them human dignity. It's
no wonder that refugees increasingly risk their lives to seek
asylum directly in the West. Drawing from extensive first-hand
accounts of life as a refugee with nowhere to go, Parekh argues
that we need a moral response to these crises-one that assumes the
humanity of refugees in addition to the challenges that states have
when they accept refugees. Only once we grasp that the global
refugee crisis has these two dimensions-the asylum crisis for
Western states and the crisis for refugees who cannot find
refuge-can we reckon with a response proportionate to the
complexities we face. Countries and citizens have a moral
obligation to address the structures that unjustly prevent refugees
from accessing the minimum conditions of human dignity. As Parekh
shows, there are ways we as citizens can respond to the global
refugee crisis, and indeed we are morally obligated to do so.
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