What Do We Owe to Refugees?

by David Owen

Book Overview

Who are refugees? Who, if anyone, is responsible for protecting them? What forms should this protection take? In a world of people fleeing from civil wars, state failure, and environmental disasters, these are ethically and politically pressing questions.

In this book, David Owen reveals how the contemporary politics of refuge is structured by two rival historical pictures of refugees. In reconstructing this history, he advocates an understanding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509539743
• ISBN13: 9781509539741
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.8" x 7.4"