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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823386003321

Titolo

Displacement, asylum, migration [[electronic resource] ] : the Oxford Amnesty lectures 2004 / / edited by Kate E. Tunstall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-383-00291-6

1-280-76228-4

0-19-151314-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (370 p.)

Collana

The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2004

Altri autori (Persone)

TunstallKate E

Disciplina

325/.21

Soggetti

Refugees

Human rights

Emigration and immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-344) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part one : human rights -- Finding a proper place for human rights / Bhikhu Parekh ; response by Bhikhu Parekh -- Against an ideology of human rights / Slavoj Zizek ; response by Michael Ignatieff -- Strangers in our midst : insearch of seven pillars of wisdon / Ali A. Mazrui ; response by Iftikhar H. Malik -- Part two : displacement, asylum, migration -- A thousand little Guantanamos : western states and measures to prevent the arrival of refugees / Matthew J. Gibney ; response by Milissa Lane -- The repositioning of citizenship and alienage : emergent subjects and spaces for politics / Saskia Sassen ; response by Christian Joppke -- Border crossings / Caryl Phillips ; response by Elleke Boehmer -- The new global slave trade / harold Hongju Koh ; response by Koslowski -- Displacement in Zion / Jacqueline Rose ; response by Ali Abunimah.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume is based on the 2004 series of the Oxford Amnesty Lectures, one of the world's leading name lecture series. In it major figures in philosophy, political science, law, psychoanalysis, sociology, and literature address the challenges that displacement, asylum, and migration pose to our notions of human rights. - ;There are few issues more urgently in need of intelligent analysis both in the UK and



elsewhere than those relating to displacement, asylum, and migration. In this volume, based on the 2004 Oxford Amnesty Lectures, major figures in philosophy, political science, law, psychoa