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Bradley Hillier-Smith’s ‘The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees’ Book Launch
November 20 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
You are warmly invited to the book launch for Bradley Hillier-Smith’s brand-new book The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees (abstract below). The author will be interviewed by Kieran Oberman (LSE), after which we will all be in the opportunity to ask questions and celebrate the new book with some well-deserved drinks. All welcome!
Bradley Hillier-Smith: The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees
Edgecliffe 104, 20th November from 4pm – 6pm, followed by drinks. For those unable to join in person, the Teams link is here.
Abstract for The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees
At a time of intense philosophical and political debates on how states ought to respond to refugees, this book provides an account of what an ethical response to refugees would be. It does this by developing an understanding of the moral duties that states have towards refugees. The first half of the book analyses state practices used in response to refugees, to understand the negative duties of states not to harm or violate the rights of innocent refugees. The second half analyses morally significant features of contemporary refugee displacement, to understand the positive duties of states to alleviate the distinctive harms and injustices that refugees face. The two halves together thereby outline the negative and positive duties of states towards refugees which together constitute the elements of an ethical response. The book then demonstrates this ethical response is not only urgently required but is also within reach.
About Kieran Oberman: Kieran Oberman is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the LSE whose research and numerous publications specialise in the ethics of border control, immigration, migration ethics, the freedoms and rights of migrants, and obligations towards refugees among other topics in global justice.