ISBN:
9781107148765
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (266 p)
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law v.127
Parallel Title:
4243 Erscheint auch als Mann, Itamar Humanity at sea
DDC:
341.4/86#23
Keywords:
Boat people - Legal status, laws, etc
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Internationale Migration
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Bootsflüchtling
;
Seenot
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Menschenrecht
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Völkerrecht
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Internationale Migration
;
Bootsflüchtling
;
Seenot
;
Menschenrecht
;
Völkerrecht
Abstract:
Integrates legal, historical, and philosophical materials to illuminate the migration topic and to provide a novel theory of human rights
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Humanity Washed Ashore -- 1 Flagless Vessel -- 2 What Is a Human Rights Claim? -- 3 What Is a Human Rights Commitment? -- 4 Between Moral Blackmail and Moral Risk -- 5 The Place Where We Stand -- 6 Imagination and the Human Rights Encounter -- Conclusion: The Dual Foundation of International Law -- Postscript -- Index -- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law -- Books in the Series
Abstract:
This interdisciplinary study engages law, history, and political theory in a first attempt to crystallize the lessons the global 'refugee crisis' can teach us about the nature of international law. It connects the dots between the actions of Jewish migrants to Palestine after WWII, Vietnamese 'boatpeople', Haitian refugees seeking to reach Florida, Middle Eastern migrants and refugees bound to Australia, and Syrian refugees currently crossing the Mediterranean, and then legal responses by states and international organizations to these movements. Through its account of maritime migration, the book proposes a theory of human rights modelled around an encounter between individuals in which one of the parties is at great risk. It weaves together primary sources, insights from the work of twentieth-century thinkers such as Hannah Arendt and Emmanuel Levinas, and other legal materials to form a rich account of an issue of increasing global concern
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
