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Displacement, Asylum, Migration : The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2004.
Title:
Displacement, Asylum, Migration : The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2004.
Author:
Tunstall, Kate E.
ISBN:
9780191513145
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (370 pages)
Series:
Oxford Amnesty Lectures
Contents:
Contents -- Contributors -- Epigraph -- Introduction -- Part One: Human Rights -- 1. Finding a Proper Place for Human Rights -- Response -- 2. Against an Ideology of Human Rights -- Response -- 3. Strangers in our Midst: In Search of Seven Pillars of Wisdom -- Response -- Part Two: Displacement, Asylum, Migration -- 4. 'A Thousand Little Guantanamos': Western States and Measures to Prevent the Arrival of Refugees -- Response -- 5. The Repositioning of Citizenship and Alienage: Emergent Subjects and Spaces for Politics -- Response -- 6. Border Crossings -- Response -- 7. The New Global Slave Trade -- Response -- 8. Displacement in Zion -- Response -- Endnotes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
This volume is based on the 2004 series of the Oxford Amnesty Lectures, one of the world's leading name lecture series. In it major figures in philosophy, political science, law, psychoanalysis, sociology, and literature address the challenges that displacement, asylum, and migration pose to our notions of human rights.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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