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74Introduction to the thematic issue ‘Refugee Crisis: The Borders of Human Mobility’Journal of Global Ethics 12 (3): 245-251. 2016.This introduction discusses some of the background assumptions and recent developments of the current refugee crisis. In this issue, the crisis is not viewed as a primarily European, Western or even Syrian, Afghan, or Iraqi crisis, but as a global crisis that raises complex ethical and political challenges for all humanity. The contributions to this thematic issue discuss a variety of questions relating to the rights and duties of different actors involved in the refugee crisis, and assess some …Read more
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Justice across bordersIn Chris Melenovsky (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Routledge. 2022.
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9Remaining Agnostic about Blame and the Moral Status of Smugglers: Response to CommentariesSocial Philosophy Today 38 147-152. 2022.
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49Conscience, morality and judgment: An inquiry into the subjective basis of human rightsPhilosophy and Social Criticism 34 (1-2): 177-195. 2008.This paper is an exploration of the role of conscience in the justification of human rights. I argue that in both the western tradition of natural rights and the non-western traditions, human rights are justified, in part, because of their appeal to conscience, and not simply because they issue from a divine source or are based on reason. In contrast, contemporary justifications of human rights primarily look for an objective foundation or simply assert the pragmatic importance of human rights a…Read more
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15Justice for migrants and refugees: a discussion of Gillian Brock’s Justice for People on the Move by the author of No RefugeJournal of Global Ethics 16 (2): 139-147. 2020.This article is part of an author-meets-author symposium that focuses on my most recent book, No Refuge, and Gillian Brock’s new book, Justice for People on the Move. Both books focus on the ethica...
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51Reframing the refugee crisis: from rescue to interconnectionEthics and Global Politics 13 (1): 21-32. 2020.
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18No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee CrisisOup Usa. 2020.Drawing from extensive, eye-opening first-person accounts, No Refuge puts a spotlight on the millions of refugees worldwide who have to leave home but find nowhere to resettle. As political philosopher Serena Parekh argues, this is not just a problem for politicians. Citizens also have a moral duty to help resolve the global refugee crisis and to end the suffering and denial of human rights that refugee are forced to endure, often for years. While the media usually focus on the challenges that W…Read more
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133Feminist Perspectives on GlobalizationThe Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2018.In its broadest sense, globalization refers to the economic, social, cultural, and political processes of integration that result from the expansion of transnational economic production, migration, communications, and technologies. This article outlines the ways in which predominantly Western feminist philosophers have articulated and addressed the challenges associated with its economic and political dimensions.
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54Global Feminist EthicsRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2007.This volume is fourth in the series of annuals created under the auspices of The Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory . The topics covered herein_from peacekeeping and terrorism, to sex trafficking and women's paid labor, to poverty and religious fundamentalism_are vital to women and to feminist movements throughout the world
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20Refuge: Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World, Alexander Betts and Paul Collier , 288 pp., $18.95 paperEthics and International Affairs 32 (3): 384-386. 2018.
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23Book Review: Strangers in Our Midst: The Political Philosophy of Immigration, by David Miller (review)Political Theory 46 (2): 307-312. 2018.
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46Beyond the ethics of admissionPhilosophy and Social Criticism 40 (7): 645-663. 2014.This article examines our moral obligations to refugees and stateless people. I argue that in order to understand our moral obligations to stateless people, both de jure refugees and de facto stateless people, we ought to reconceptualize the harm of statelessness as entailing both a legal/political harm (the loss of citizenship) and an ontological harm, a deprivation of certain fundamental human qualities. To do this, I draw on the work of Hannah Arendt and show that the ontological deprivation …Read more
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34Refugees and the Ethics of Forced DisplacementRoutledge. 2016.This book is a philosophical analysis of the ethical treatment of refugees and stateless people, a group of people who, though extremely important politically, have been greatly under theorized philosophically. The limited philosophical discussion of refugees by philosophers focuses narrowly on the question of whether or not we, as members of Western states, have moral obligations to admit refugees into our countries. This book reframes this debate and shows why it is important to think ethicall…Read more
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28Care and Human Rights in a Globalized WorldSouthern Journal of Philosophy 46 (S1): 104-110. 2008.
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18Taking Hold of Life: Liberal Eugenics, Autonomy, and BiopowerIn Scott M. Campbell & Paul W. Bruno (eds.), The Science, Politics, and Ontology of Life-Philosophy, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 157. 2013.
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71Hannah Arendt and Global JusticePhilosophy Compass 8 (9): 771-780. 2013.This essay explores recent scholarship on Hannah Arendt's contribution to the field of global justice. I show that many of Arendt's ideas have been brought to bear fruitfully on some of the most pressing global issues of our day. I turn first to the area in which Arendt has, arguably, been most influential, namely human right. I then look at recent scholarship on Arendt and various issues in global justice, including immigration, statelessness, human security, global poverty, political reconcili…Read more
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18Review of Jason D. hill, Beyond Blood Identities: Posthumanity in the Twenty-First Century (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (6). 2010.
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21Care and Human Rights in a Globalized WorldSouthern Journal of Philosophy 46 (S1): 104-110. 2008.
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33_Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity_ explores the theme of human rights in the work of Hannah Arendt. Parekh argues that Arendt's contribution to this debate has been largely ignored because she does not speak in the same terms as contemporary theoreticians of human rights. Beginning by examining Arendt’s critique of human rights, and the concept of "a right to have rights" with which she contrasts the traditional understanding of human rights, Parekh goes on to analyze some of the ten…Read more
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6This book is a philosophical analysis of the ethical treatment of refugees and stateless people, a group of people who, though extremely important politically, have been greatly under theorized philosophically. The limited philosophical discussion of refugees by philosophers focuses narrowly on the question of whether or not we, as members of Western states, have moral obligations to admit refugees into our countries. This book reframes this debate and shows why it is important to think ethicall…Read more
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87Does ordinary injustice make extraordinary injustice possible? Gender, structural injustice, and the ethics of refugee determinationJournal of Global Ethics 8 (2-3): 269-281. 2012.Our understanding of the impact of gender on refugee determination has evolved greatly over the last 60 years. Though many people initially believed that women could not be persecuted qua women, it is now frequently recognized that certain forms of gender-related persecution are sufficient to warrant asylum. Yet despite this conceptual progress, many states are still reluctant to consider certain forms of gender-related persecution to be sufficient to warrant asylum or refugee status. One reason…Read more
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1Modernity, Nihilism And Love.Annales Philosophici 1 56-65. 2010.Raimond Gaita’s idea that love is the foundation for human rights is both plausible and startling. This paper aims at arguing this point of view by defining the concept of human rights in a philosophical key. Following an investigation on the foundations of human rights in modernity we reach the conclusion that human rights can have no solid, universal foundation within the modern ethos. This doesn’t mean that human rights are illegitimate: it’s exactly the struggle for human rights, the struggl…Read more
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25Between Community and Humanity: Arendt, Judgment, and Responsibility to the Global PoorPhilosophical Topics 39 (2): 145-163. 2011.I argue in this paper that Hannah Arendt can make a valuable contribution to the debate over global justice and our obligations to the global poor. I maintain that Arendt's work helps us to see how we might be able to combine the best impulses of both partialists and impartialists, and find a middle ground between taking seriously the importance of community as a human good, and the pressing ethical demands of noncitizens. I demonstrate that throughout her corpus, we see both impulses at work. A…Read more
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12Reconciling with Heidegger: Friendship, disappointment and love in the wake of the controversy (review)Philosophy and Social Criticism 39 (9): 885-892. 2013.
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136Getting to the Root of Gender Inequality: Structural Injustice and Political ResponsibilityHypatia 26 (4): 672-689. 2011.In this paper, I argue that there is a philosophical basis for the claim that states can be held responsible for structural injustices such as gender discrimination and violence—a claim that has been made in international human rights documents, but one that has not gained much normative force. To show this, I draw on and develop Iris Young's notion of “political responsibility.” The purpose of political responsibility is not to find fault or blame the state for a past wrong, but to encourage th…Read more
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University of ConnecticutDepartment of Philosophy and Institute for Human RightsAssistant Professor