David Owen - What Do We Owe to Refugees?

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2 Front Matter What Do We Owe to Refugees? David Owen polity

3 Prologue: A Tale of Two Ship Notes

4 Introduction Two Pictures of Refugees Structure of the Book Notes

5 1 Picturing RefugeesForced Displacement and the Making of the Modern Refugee Regime Lines of Descent: Persecution, Humanitarianism and Multilateralism Constructing the Modern Regime Conclusion Notes

6 2 Who Are Refugees? Who Is a Refugee? Reconstructing the Institution of Refugeehood Notes

7 3 Responsibility for RefugeesShared Responsibilities and Durable Solutions The Responsibility to Protect and the Norm of Non-Refoulement Refugee Statuses and Durable Solutions Sharing Responsibility Towards a Fair Regime of Refugee Protection Notes

8 4 Predicaments of Protection Failures of Responsibility Sharing and Obligations of Solidarity Logics of Failure State Responsibilities in Contexts of Non-Cooperation Citizen and Refugee Responsibilities in Contexts of Unfair Shares Notes

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David Owen

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ISBN-13: 978–1-5095–3975-8

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Names: Owen, David, 1964- author.

Title: What do we owe to refugees? / David Owen.

Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2020. | Series: Political theory today | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “Who are refugees? Who, if anyone, is responsible for protecting them? What forms should this protection take? In this engaging and concise book, David Owen provides a clear account of the responsibilities of refugee protection and the forms of international co-operation that will be required to discharge them”-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019025264 | ISBN 9781509539734 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509539741 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509539758 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Refugees. | Emigration and immigration--International cooperation. | Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Classification: LCC HV640 .O89 2020 | DDC 325/.21--dc23

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To Miranda

With the hope that your generation will do better

I have accumulated many debts over the years; the main ones are to Liza Schuster, who introduced me to the issue, to Matt Gibney, from whom I have learnt most (perhaps not enough), and to Joseph Carens and Rainer Bauböck, who have each critically supported my thinking about this topic. Others whose thinking and comments have helped me along the way include Alex Aleinikoff, Sarah Fine, David Miller, Kelly Oliver, Clara Sandelind, James Souter, Christine Straehle, Kerri Woods and Leah Zamore. Particular thanks are due to Chris Armstrong, Chris Bertram, Peter Niesen, Anne Phillips and Tracy Strong, for responses to the whole manuscript.

I was fortunate to have the political philosophy group at the University of Milan devote a workshop to the draft manuscript, and I am grateful to Corrado Fumagalli for organising it and to his colleagues for their critical insights. Special thanks are due to Gloria Zuccarelli and Laura Santi Amantini for detailed and helpful comments on the manuscript and to Valeria Ottonelli for raising an important point I had not adequately considered. I am also grateful to George Owers and Julia Davies at Polity, who have been exemplary throughout the process, and to two anonymous reviewers.

Outside academic life I owe a debt to two friends – Jon Courtenay Grimwood and Simon Nicholson – who read the manuscript of this book as fellow writers, with an ear to its accessibility to the lay reader. My wife, Caroline Wintersgill, has offered her always steadfast love and support (even while trying to finish her PhD); and our children, Miranda and Arthur, sustain me in more ways than they know. Because I admire her passionate concern for justice, I dedicate this book to Miranda.