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1Climate refugeehood: A counterargumentEuropean Journal of Political Theory. forthcoming.This paper argues against the idea of climate change refugeehood. Drawing on political realism, it reconstructs the idea and function of refugeehood in international politics. Refugees are not the agencyless victims merely in search of rescue by states of the Global North, as the idea of climate refugeehood as a form of humanitarian refugeehood would have it. Nor are they simply a function of reparative justice, or of defending international state legitimacy. To liberal democracies, refugees are…Read more
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2Should refugees govern refugee camps?Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 27 (4): 441-464. 2024.Should refugees govern refugee camps? This paper argues that they should. It draws on normative political thought in consulting the all-subjected principle and an instrumental defense of democratic rule. The former holds that all those subjected to rule in a political unit should have a say in such rule. Through analyzing the conditions that pertain in refugee camps, the paper demonstrates that the all-subjected principle applies there, too. Refugee camps have developed as near distinct entities…Read more
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7Noncitizenism: Recognising Noncitizen Capabilities in a World of Citizens, written by Tendayi BloomJournal of Moral Philosophy 20 (3-4): 354-357. 2023.
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9What's Political about Political Refugeehood? A Normative ReappraisalEthics and International Affairs 36 (3): 353-375. 2022.What is political about political refugeehood? Theorists have assumed that refugees are special because their specific predicament as those who are persecuted sets them aside from other “necessitous strangers.” Persecution is a special form of wrongful harm that marks the repudiation of a person's political membership and that cannot—contrary to certain other harms—be remedied where they are. It makes asylum necessary as a specific remedial institution. In this article, I argue that this is corr…Read more
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229Refugees, Development and Autocracies: On What Repairs the State System's LegitimacyEthical Perspectives 28 (3): 356-361. 2021.
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41Should refugees govern refugee camps?Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 1 1-24. forthcoming.Should refugees govern refugee camps? This paper argues that they should. It draws on normative political thought in consulting the all-subjected principle and an instrumental defense of democratic rule. The former holds that all those subjected to rule in a political unit should have a say in such rule. Through analyzing the conditions that pertain in refugee camps, the paper demonstrates that the all-subjected principle applies there, too. Refugee camps have developed as near distinct entities…Read more
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8What Makes the Public Special? Political Philosophy, Methodology and Politically Motivated ResearchAustralasian Philosophical Review 4 (1): 75-79. 2020.ABSTRACT Avner de Shalit argues that philosophers should listen to what the public thinks. He argues that by engaging with people in the streets, political philosophy will improve. Yet, what makes the public special in this regard? This response will do three things. First, it asks whether discussing with the public differs in any meaningful way from discussing with other people such as colleagues or students. Second, it questions the methodological approach, asking whether de Shalit's approach …Read more
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47Enfranchising the disenfranchised: should refugees receive political rights in liberal democracies?Citizenship Studies. forthcoming.Should refugees receive political rights in liberal democracies? I argue that they should. Refugees are special – at least when it comes to claims towards democratic inclusion. They lack exit options and are significantly impacted by decisions made in liberal democracies. Enfranchisement is a matter of urgency to them and should occur on a national level. But what justifies the democratic inclusion of refugees? I draw on the all-subjected principle in arguing that all those subjected to rule in …Read more
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57Refugees: The politically oppressedPhilosophy and Social Criticism 47 (5): 615-633. 2020.Who should be recognized as a refugee? This article seeks to uncover the normative arguments at the core of legal and philosophical conceptions of refugeehood. It identifies three analytically distinct approaches grounding the right to refugee status and argues that all three are normatively inadequate. Refugee status should neither be grounded in individual persecution for specific reasons (classical approach) nor in individual persecution for any discriminatory reasons (human rights approach).…Read more
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47Abolishing asylum and violating the human rights of refugees. Why is it tolerated? The case of Hungary in the EUIn Elżbieta M. Goździak, Izabella Main & Brigitte Suter (eds.), Europe and the Refugee Response: A Crisis of Values?, Routledge. 2020.Why are human rights abuses of refugees at the EU’s geographical periphery tolerated by other EU states? This chapter uses the case of Hungary and Germany to explore how the former abolished the institution of asylum, shedding light on the human rights abuses of refugees, and why states such as the latter seem to condone such actions. It argues that core EU member states condone human rights abuses at the geographical periphery of the EU as long as they contribute to keeping refugees from access…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Immigration |
Citizenship |
Applied Ethics and Normative Ethics |
Areas of Interest
Social and Political Philosophy |
Immigration |