TAILIEUCHUNG - The Ethics and Politics of Asylum

Over the last twenty years, asylum has become one of the central issues in the politics of liberal democratic states. In 1993 the German Parliament embarked upon the politically onerous task of amending the country’s constitution, the Basic Law, in order to slow the arrival of asylum seekers on to state territory. One year later, the Clinton Administration in the US, faced with criticism over its policy of summarily interdicting asylum seekers on boats heading for Florida, launched a military intervention into the island nation of Haiti, largely to restore a regime less likely to produce refugees | The Ethics and Politics of Asylum Liberal Democracy and the Response to Refugees Matthew J. Gibney Camrridgi Cambridge 9780521804172 This page intentionally left blank The Ethics and Politics of Asylum Asylum has become a highly charged political issue across developed countries raising a host of difficult ethical and political questions. What responsibilities do the world s richest countries have to refugees arriving at their borders Are st Lai Les j us Liliedl in implementing measures to prevent the arrival of economic migrants if they also block entry for refugees Is it legitimate to curtail the rights of asylum seekers to maximise the number of refugees receiving protection overall This book draws upon poiitícal and ethical theory and an examination of the experiences of the United States Germany the United Kingdom and Australia to consider how to respond to the challenges of asylum. In addition to explaining why asylum has emerged as such a key political issue in recent years it provides a compelling account of how states could move towards implenting morally defensible responses to refugees. MATTHEW J. GIBNEY is Elizabeth Colson Lecturer in Forced Migration at the Refugee Studies Centre Queen Elizabeth House University of Oxford and Official Fellow of Linacre College Oxford. He has published many articles on asylum and immigration and is the editor of Globalizing Rights The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2003 . He is currently editing with Randall Hansen a three-volume encyclopedia Global Migration in the Twentieth Century forthcoming

• Tiếng Anh thương mại
• Liberal Democracy
• Politics of Asylum
• restricting asylum
• resettling refugees
• ethically defensible
• asylum practices