Ethics of Refugee Policy

Christina Boswell is Senior Researcher for the Migration Research Group at Hamburg Institute of International Economics, Germany.

• Contents: Preface; Introduction; The origins of the crisis in refugee policy; Liberal universalism and the problem of feasibility; Thin universalism and the problem of internal coherence; Social contract theory and moral motivation; The role of reason in moral motivation; Community and universal duties; Mobilizing commitment to refugee rights; Bibliography; Index.

'This book shows how one can justify a generous refugee policy from an ethical point of view to citizens with deep ethical ties to their own country. It is a highly intelligent, theoretically very well-informed and ethically most attractive work.' John Charvet, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK 'In this important contribution to international political theory, Christina Boswell explains how liberal refugee policy has been outflanked by nationalist and communitarian positions, and how its commitment to hospitality needs to be reworked to answer mounting criticisms.' Andrew Linklater, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK '...this is a useful contribution to the debate on refugee and migration policy and it sheds light, from a new angle, on the liberal/communitarian divide.' Political Studies Review