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Book SynopsisThe current refugee crisis is unparalleled in history in its size and severity. According to the UNHCR, there are roughly 67 million refugees worldwide, the vast majority of whom are refugees as the result of wars and other military actions. This social and political crisis cries out for normative explanation and analysis. Morally and politically, how should we understand the fact that 1 in every 122 humans is a refugee? How should we respond to it, and why?
Jennifer Kling argues that war refugees have suffered, and continue to suffer, a series of harms, wrongs, and oppressions, and so are owed recompense, restitution, and aidas a matter of justiceby sociopolitical institutions around the world. She makes the case that war refugees should be viewed and treated differently than migrants, due to their particular circumstances, but that their circumstances do not wholly alleviate their own moral responsibilities. We must stop treating refugees as objects to be moved around on t
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Preface
1. A Brief (Philosophical) History of War Refugees
2. Flight and Asylum: The Risks Refugees Take, and the Risks of Taking Them In
3. Who Owes What to War Refugees
4. The Oppression of War Refugees: Delineating a New Axis of Oppression
5. Who's Responsible for Refugee Justice?
6. The Moral Responsibilities of War Refugees
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