The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees

Bradley Hillier-Smith (University of St Andrews, UK)

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Routledge
05 August 2024

Ethics & moral philosophy; Politics & government; Jurisprudence & general issues; Immigration law; Asylum law

This book appears at a time of intense debate on how states should respond to refugees: some philosophers argue states are not necessarily obligated to admit a single refugee, others argue states should continually admit refugees until the point of societal collapse. Some politicians argue for increasing refugee resettlement, others seek to prevent refugees from arriving at the border. Some countries provide expansive welcome schemes and have taken in over a million refugees, others have erected concrete walls and barbed wire fences.

The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees provides an account of what an ethical response would be by developing an understanding of the moral duties that states have towards refugees. The first half of the book analyses state practices used in response to refugees, to understand the negative duties of states not to harm or violate the rights of innocent refugees. The second half analyses morally significant features of contemporary refugee displacement, to understand the positive duties of states to alleviate the distinctive harms and injustices that refugees face. The two halves together thereby outline the negative and positive duties of states towards refugees which together constitute the elements of an ethical response. The book then demonstrates this ethical response is not only urgently required but is also within reach.

By: Bradley Hillier-Smith (University of St Andrews UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032833675
ISBN 10: 103283367X
Pages: 276
Publication Date: 05 August 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Bradley Hillier-Smith is a Philosopher, Researcher, and Teacher in Moral, Legal and Political Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, UK. His research specialises in migration ethics, the philosophy of human rights, and the ethics of forced displacement, and has been published in the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, and Politics and the Journal of Social Philosophy. Bradley is also a charity-worker and a political campaigner advocating for the rights, settlement, and protection of refugees. .

Reviews for The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees

“In this important book, Bradley Hillier-Smith offers a philosophically sharp critique of what he identifies as the dominant ‘Duty of Rescue Approach’ to understanding Northern states’ ethical obligations towards refugees. From this critique, he builds an insightful analysis and vision of such states’ negative and positive obligations in this context. At a time when political debates surrounding asylum and refugee protection are highly polarised and refugee rights are under threat, Hillier-Smith’s rigorous work will be a key source for anyone interested in what a fully ethical response to refugees would look like.” -- James Souter, Lecturer in Political Theory and International Politics and author of Asylum as Reparation