The Ethics and Politics of Asylum: Liberal Democracy and the Response to Refugees

Asylum has become a highly charged political issue across developed countries over the last two decades. This book draws upon political and ethical theory and an examination of the experiences of the U.S., Germany, the U.K. and Australia to consider how to respond to the challenges of asylum. In addition to explaining why it has emerged as such a key political issue, the study provides a compelling account of how states could implement morally defensible responses to refugees.

Author: Matthew J. Gibney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 08/02/2004
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.96w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780521009379

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2005 pg. 1469

About the Author
Gibney, Matthew J.: - Matthew J. Gibney is Elizabeth Colson Lecturer in Forced Migration at the Refugee Studies Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, and Official Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. He has published many articles on asylum and immigration and is the editor of Globalizing Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures (2003). He is the editor (with Randall Hansen) of a three-volume encyclopedia Immigration and Asylum: From 1900 to the Present (2005).

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