To understand the ethics of immigration, we need to start from the way
it is enacted and understood by everyday actors: through practices of
hospitality and hostility. Drawing on feminist and poststructuralist
understandings of ethics and hospitality, this book offers a new
approach to immigration ethics by exploring state and societal
responses to immigration from the Global North and South. Rather than
treating ethics as a determinable code for how we ought to behave
toward strangers, it explores hospitality as a relational ethics —
an ethics without moralism — that aims to understand and possibly
transform the way people already do embrace and deflect obligations
and responsibilities to each other. Building from specific examples in
Colombia, Turkey and Tanzania, as well as the EU, US and UK,
hospitality is developed as a structural and emotional practice of
drawing and redrawing boundaries of inside and outside, belonging and
non-belonging. It thereby actively creates a society as a communal
space with a particular ethos: from a welcoming home to a racialised
hostile environment. Hospitality is therefore treated as a critical
mode of reflecting on how we create a 'we' and relate to others
through entangled histories of colonialism, displacement, friendship
and exploitation. Only through such a reflective understanding can we
seek to transform immigration practices to better reflect the real and
aspirational ethos of a society. Instead of simple answers —
removing borders or creating global migration regimes — the book
argues for grounded negotiations that build from existing local
capacities to respond to immigration.
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Hospitality and Hostile Environments
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780192890429
Publisert
2023
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Academic UK
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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