The Political Philosophy of Internal Displacement

Jamie Draper is an Assistant Professor in the Ethics Institute at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, Oxford. His research focuses on migration, climate change, and urban politics, and he is the author of Climate Displacement (OUP, 2023)David Owen is Professor of Social and Political Philosophy at the University of Southampton. He has published widely across the areas of post-Kantian social and political philosophy (especially on Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Frankfurt School); problems of global political community (especially on citizenship, multiculturalism, and migration); and democratic theory.

• David Owen: IntroductionPart I. The Harms and Wrongs of Displacement1: Laura Santi Amantini: The Harms of Internal Displacement beyond Human Rights2: David Miller: The Wrong of Involuntary DisplacementPart II. Autonomy, Change, and Types of Displacement3: Cara Nine: Autonomy and Adapting to Change4: Jamie Draper: Anticipatory and Reactive DisplacementPart III. How Should We Conceptualize and Protect IDPs?5: Michael Blake: At Home in the World: Internal Displacement and Moral Repair6: Eilidh Beaton: Internal Displacement and International ProtectionPart IV. Internal Displacement in the Global North and the Global South7: Allison B. Wolf: Healing Trauma, Seeing Victims: Justice for IDPs in Colombia8: Rebecca Buxton: Internal Displacement in the Global NorthPart V. IDPs and Climate Change9: Matthew Lister: Climate Change and Internal Displacement10: Anna Stilz: Internal Climate Migration and Territorial JusticePart VI. Return, Reintegration, and the Harm of Displacement Revisited11: Megan Bradley: Ending Internal Displacement: Normative Standards, Ethical Challenges12: Paulina Ochoa Espejo: The Place Left Behind: Rethinking the Harms of Forced Internal Displacement

The book 'The Political Philosophy of Internal Displacement', edited by Jamie Draper and David Owen, is a welcome contribution to the field of displacement studies. It enriches academic insights on internal displacement, and although it is not primarily targeting a policy audience, it certainly raises valid issues for those involved in developing policies to protect IDPs.