Are States Shifting Their Borders to Control Immigration?

Shachar, Ayelet; Thinking, Latest

doi:10.21036/ltpub10879

Cited by 1 publication

(1 citation statement)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Borders are also controlled and maintained through a network of legal fences, allowing states to push refugees back to the countries from which they have entered, or deport them altogether to third countries (Augustova, Farrand-Carrapico, and Obradovic-Wochnik 2023;Bender 2020a;Giuffré 2012). This gives rise to the possibility of outsourcing border control, creating a legal regime in which border management does not happen at the border, but both within and far beyond the borders of sovereigntyimposing states (Shachar 2007;Shachar et al 2020). When legal and physical fences become higher and less penetrable, people do not attempt to go through, but around them.…”

Section: Thinking Morally About Political Questions: the Duty Of Rescuementioning

confidence: 99%

Morality in the Refugee Regime? Arguing for More (Political) Realism in Admitting Refugees

Bender

2024

Perspect. polit.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Refugees drown, are beaten, and are pushed back at the borders of the states of the Global North. Moral outrage is understandable in the face of such treatment. But does it constitute a good political theory? Can morality supply us with good normative arguments for a political world? In this article, I argue that they cannot. Drawing on political realism, I show why moral arguments for admitting refugees fail. What we require is not the extrapolation of moral arguments onto a political world, but a new form of political normativity that is derived from how politics works. I show that refugeehood possesses a specific political function in international politics. States do not admit refugees based on humanitarian reasons. This is what moral arguments get wrong. Rather, they fulfill the political function of condemning and embarrassing other states, of building oppositional and military forces to undermine rival political systems both ideologically and materially. In other words, they play an important political role—a role that allows us to build normative arguments from within a political and not a moral understanding of the world.

show abstract

Section: Thinking Morally About Political Questions: the Duty Of Rescuementioning

confidence: 99%

Morality in the Refugee Regime? Arguing for More (Political) Realism in Admitting Refugees

Bender

2024

Perspect. polit.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Are States Shifting Their Borders to Control Immigration?

Cited by 1 publication

References 0 publications

Morality in the Refugee Regime? Arguing for More (Political) Realism in Admitting Refugees

Morality in the Refugee Regime? Arguing for More (Political) Realism in Admitting Refugees

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About