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Introduction - Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights: Life Outside the Pale of the Law

Larking, Emma

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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...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorLarking, Emma
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-18T04:14:22Z
dc.date.available2017-01-18T04:14:22Z
dc.identifier.citationEmma Larking, 'Introduction' in Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights: Life Outside the Pale of the Law, Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014, 1-9.
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-4724-3007-6
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/111874
dc.description.abstractMost 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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dc.publisherAshgate
dc.relation.ispartofRefugees and the Myth of Human Rights: Life Outside the Pale of the Law
dc.rights© Ashgate
dc.rightsThe publisher permission to archive the version was granted via email on 9/02/2017
dc.subjectHuman rights
dc.subjectrefugees
dc.subjectimmigration
dc.subjectborder controls
dc.subjectliberal democracy
dc.titleIntroduction - Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights: Life Outside the Pale of the Law
dc.typeBook chapter
dc.date.issued2014-12
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.routledge.com/Refugees-and-the-Myth-of-Human-Rights-Life-Outside-the-Pale-of-the-Law/Larking/p/book/9781472430076
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationLarking, E., School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), The Australian National University
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage1
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage9
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