Reasons for and against Accepting Refugees: A Philosophical Overview (2024)

No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis

Serena Parekh

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2020

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9780197508022

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9780197507995

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Parekh, Serena, 'Reasons for and against Accepting Refugees: A Philosophical Overview', No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis (New York, 2020; online edn, Oxford Academic, 22 Oct. 2020), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197507995.003.0004, accessed 16 Apr. 2024.

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For most people in the West, whether or not we should accept refugees, either by offering them asylum or through resettlement, is the key ethical question. But precisely why states have obligations to take in refugees is often less clear. This chapter discusses the philosophical debate surrounding states’ moral obligations to asylum seekers and refugees. The chapter explores three moral arguments for allowing refugees and asylum seekers into our countries, in fairly high, though not unlimited, numbers. But it also engages with the opposing view and shows why some believe our obligations to refugees do not necessarily include resettlement or asylum. This chapter helps people on opposing sides of the debate understand each other’s perspectives.

Keywords: resettlement, moral obligation, nationalism, freedom of association, principle of humanity, Good Samaritan principle, self-determination

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