To understand the ethics of immigration, we need to start from the way it is enacted and understood by everyday actors: through practices of hospitality and hostility. Drawing on feminist and poststructuralist understandings of ethics and hospitality, this book offers a new approach to immigration ethics by exploring state and societal responses to immigration from the Global North and South. Rather than treating ethics as a determinable code for how we ought to behave toward strangers, it explores hospitality as a relational ethics—an ethics without moralism—that aims to understand and possibly transform the way people already do embrace and deflect obligations and responsibilities to each other. Building from specific examples in Colombia, Turkey, and Tanzania, as well as the EU, US and UK, hospitality is developed as a structural and emotional practice of drawing and redrawing boundaries of inside and outside; belonging and non-belonging. It thereby actively creates a society as a communal space with a particular ethos: from a welcoming home to a racialised hostile environment. Hospitality is therefore treated as a critical mode of reflecting on how we create a 'we' and relate to others through entangled histories of colonialism, displacement, friendship, and exploitation. Only through such a reflective understanding can we seek to transform immigration practices to better reflect the real and aspirational ethos of a society. Instead of simple answers—removing borders or creating global migration regimes—the book argues for grounded negotiations that build from existing local capacities to respond to immigration.
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Drawing on feminist and poststructuralist understandings of ethics and hospitality, this book offers a new approach to immigration ethics by exploring state and societal responses to immigration from the Global North and South.
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Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1: Liberal Theory and the Ethics of Immigration 2: Hospitality as a Relational Ethics 3: External Borders: Accepting and Deflecting Responsibility 4: Between Borders: Interstitial Spaces of Ambivalent Non-Belonging 5: Internal Borders: Creating Insecurity and Belonging 6: Responding to Hostile Environments Conclusion Bibliography
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Dan Bulley spent 10 years teaching at Queen's University Belfast before being appointed at Oxford Brookes University in 2017. He was made Professor of International Relations in 2023. His work focuses on the interactions of ethics, power, and space in practices of migration, border control, urban planning, humanitarianism, community, and foreign policy. His work has been published by prominent journals in IR and Geography, as well as in two previous monographs, Ethics as Foreign Policy (2009) and Migration, Ethics and Power (2017). Most recently, he co-edited (with Jenny Edkins and Nadine El-Enany), After Grenfell: Violence, Resistance and Response (2019).
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A first attempt to fully think through what the practice of hospitality can offer to a burgeoning literature on the ethics of immigration Builds on feminist and poststructural understandings of ethics as relational, working from particular responsibilities, rather than offering abstract, general principles to guide behaviour Provides extensive analysis and examples from the Global South (Colombia, Jordan, Tanzania, South Africa, and Turkey) as well as the Global North (EU, UK, and US) Is explicitly interdisciplinary in its approach, working from foundational insights in Philosophy, Geography, Sociology, and Anthropology, as well as International Relations and Political Theory
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ISBN
9780192890009
Publisert
2023
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
434 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
160 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
208

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Dan Bulley spent 10 years teaching at Queen's University Belfast before being appointed at Oxford Brookes University in 2017. He was made Professor of International Relations in 2023. His work focuses on the interactions of ethics, power, and space in practices of migration, border control, urban planning, humanitarianism, community, and foreign policy. His work has been published by prominent journals in IR and Geography, as well as in two previous monographs, Ethics as Foreign Policy (2009) and Migration, Ethics and Power (2017). Most recently, he co-edited (with Jenny Edkins and Nadine El-Enany), After Grenfell: Violence, Resistance and Response (2019).