Beschreibung:
This Palgrave Pivot examines refugee camps in the EU, Australia, and their border zones. The approach is interdisciplinary, comprising perspectives of history, ethics, political science, literature, and health. The book argues that current practice of accommodating refugees is arbitrary and disempowering, ranging from strict regulation within nation states to detrimental conditions in extraterritorial camps. It instead proposes to increase public scrutiny of refugee camps, to enforce existing laws, and to endorse ethical place-making. With its contributions from a wide range of fields, this edited volume will be of interest to academics and students in public health, ethics, sociology, politics, and related fields.
This Palgrave Pivot examines refugee camps in the EU, Australia, and their border zones. The approach is interdisciplinary, comprising perspectives of history, ethics, political science, literature, and health. The book argues that current practice of accommodating refugees is arbitrary and disempowering, ranging from strict regulation within nation states to detrimental conditions in extraterritorial camps. It instead proposes to increase public scrutiny of refugee camps, to enforce existing laws, and to endorse ethical place-making. With its contributions from a wide range of fields, this edited volume will be of interest to academics and students in public health, ethics, sociology, politics, and related fields.
1.Refugee camps: Paradise or Purgatory?.- Part 1: Analytical lenses on camps.- 2.The long and winding road from Castra Regina to Kutupalong: Reflections on the definition and history of camps.- 3.Hannah Arendt and the politics of encampment.- 4.Camp settings in the EU, Australia, and their extended border zones.- 5.Assessing refugee accommodation: from Broken Windows Index to heterotopic spaces.- 6.What the Mountains told us: A conversation on Behrouz Boochani´s book “No Friend But The Mountains”.- Part 2: Ways towards improving refugee accommodation .- 7.Refugees and others enduring displacement: structural injustice, health, and ethical place-making.- 8.Feminist ethics of care, responsibility, and refugee accommodation: Concrete steps towards improvements.