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Displacement, Asylum, Migration
The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2004
Edited by Kate E. Tunstall
384 pages
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196x129mm
978-0-19-280724-3
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Paperback
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16 February 2006
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- The 2004 volume of the internationally renowned Oxford Amnesty Lectures series
- Examines the challenges that displacement, asylum, and migration pose to our notions of human rights
- The authors are distinguished writers from the areas of philosophy, political science, law, psychoanalysis, sociology, and literature
There are few issues more urgently in need of intelligent analysis both in the UK and elsewhere than those relating to displacement, asylum, and migration. In this volume, based on the 2004 Oxford Amnesty Lectures, major figures in philosophy, political science, law, psychoanalysis, sociology, and literature address the challenges that displacement, asylum, and migration pose to our notions of human rights. Each lecture is accompanied by a critical response from another leading thinker in the field.
The volume contains lectures by Slavoj Zizek, Bhikhu Parekh, Ali
A.Mazrui, Matthew J. Gibney, Saskia Sassen, Harold Hongju Koh, Caryl Phillips, and Jacqueline Rose, with critical responses from Michael Ignatieff, Seyla Benhabib, Iftikhar Malik, Melissa Lane, Christian Joppke, Rey Koslowski, Elleke Boehmer, and Ali Abunimah.
This is the twelfth volume of Oxford Amnesty Lectures to be published since 1992.
'All good citizens should probably want to buy them . . . simply because they are published in support of such a good cause. It turns out, though, that no self-sacrifice is involved. [These] are immensely rich, challenging, stimulating volumes . . . The contributors' lists are star-studded . . . and each book has a clear, coherent, overarching theme, despite the extreme diversity of the individual lectures'
(The Independent, April 10, 2003).Readership: Students and specialists in the fields of refugee studies, migration studies, political thought, law, human rights, development studies, sociology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and modern critical theory.
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Edited by Kate E. Tunstall, Fellow in French, Worcester College, Oxford Contributors:
Ali Abunimah is a writer and commentator on the Middle East and Arab-American affairs. He is Researcher in Social Policy at the University of Chicago and Co-Founder of the Electronic Intifada.
Seyla Benhabib is Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale. Her books include The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (1996), The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era (2003) and The John Seeley Memorial Lectures, The Rights of Others. Aliens, Residents and Citizens (2004).
Elleke Boehmer is the Hildred Carlile Professor in Literatures in English at Royal Holloway, University of London, and author of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors (1995) and Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial 1890-1920: Resistance in Interaction (2002). Her fictional writing includes Bloodlines (2000), and she recently edited Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship (2004).
Matthew J. Gibney is Elizabeth Colson Lecturer in Forced Migration at Oxford University, and author of The Ethics and Politics of Asylum: Liberal Democracy and the Response to Refugees (2004).
Michael Ignatieff is Director of the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy, John F. Kennedy School of
Government, at Harvard University. His books include The Needs of Strangers: An Essay on the Philosophy of Human Needs (1984), Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism (1993), The Warrior's Honour: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience (1998), Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond (2000), The Rights Revolution (2001) and The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror (2005).
Christian Joppke is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bremen, and author of Immigration and the Nation-State: The United States, Germany and Great Britain (1999) and Selecting by Origin: Ethnic Migration in the Liberal State (2005).
Harold Hongju Koh is Dean of the Law School at Yale University. When he was Assistant Secretary of State for Human
Rights, Democracy and Labour in the Clinton administration, he brought cases against the US government for its repatriation of refugees from Haiti and Cuba.
Rey Koslowski is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers, and author of Migrants and Citizens: Demographic Change in the European States System (2000) and Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives (2001).
Melissa Lane is Lecturer in History at King's College, Cambridge, and author of Method and Politics in Plato's Statesman (1998) and Plato's Progeny: How Socrates and Plato still Captivate the Modern Mind (2001).
Iftikhar Malik is Senior Lecturer in History, Bath Spa University. His publications include State and Civil Society in Pakistan: Politics
of Authority, Ideology and Ethnicity (1996), Islam, Nationalism and the West: Issues of Identity in Pakistan (1999) and Islam and Modernity: Muslims in Europe and the United States (2003).
ALI ABUNIMAH is a writer and commentator on the Middle East and Arab-American affairs. He is Researcher in Social
Policy at the University of Chicago and Co-Founder of the Electronic Intifada.
SEYLA BENHABIB is Eugene Meyer Professor of Political
Science and Philosophy at Yale. Her books include The
Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (1996), The
Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global
Era (2003), and The John Seeley Memorial Lectures,
The Rights of
Others: Aliens, Residents and Citizens
(2004).
ELLEKE BOEHMER is the Hildred Carlile Professor in
Literatures in English at Royal Holloway, University of
London, and author of Colonial and Postcolonial
Literature: Migrant Metaphors (1995) and Empire, the
National and the Postcolonial: 1890DS1920: Resistance in
Interaction (2002). Her fictional writing includes
Bloodlines (2000), and she recently edited Robert
Baden-Powell, Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for
Instruction in Good Citizenship (2004).
MATTHEW J. GIBNEY is Elizabeth Colson Lecturer in
Forced Migration at Oxford University, and
author of
The Ethics and Politics of Asylum: Liberal Democracy
and the Response to Refugees (2004).
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF is Director of the Carr Centre
for Human Rights Policy, John F. Kennedy School of
Government, at Harvard University. His books include
The Needs of Strangers: An Essay on the Philosophy
of Human Needs (1984), Blood and Belonging:
Journeys into the New Nationalism (1993), The
Warrior>'s Honour: Ethnic War and the Modern
Conscience (1998), Virtual War: Kosovo and
Beyond (2000), The Rights Revolution (2001),
and The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age
of Terror (2005).
CHRISTIAN JOPPKE is Professor of Sociology at
the University of Bremen, and author of Immigration
and the Nation-State: The United States, Germany and
Great Britain (1999) and Selecting by Origin:
Ethnic Migration in the Liberal State (2005).
HAROLD HONGJU KOH is Dean of the Law School at
Yale University. When he was Assistant Secretary of
State for Human Rights, Democracy and Labour in the
Clinton administration, he brought cases against the
US government for its repatriation of refugees from
Haiti and Cuba.
REY KOSLOWSKI is Associate Professor of Political
Science at
Rutgers, and author of Migrants and
Citizens: Demographic Change in the European States
System (2000) and Global Human Smuggling:
Comparative Perspectives (2001).
MELISSA LANE is Lecturer in History at King>'s
College, Cambridge, and author of Method and
Politics in Plato>'s Statesman (1998) and
Plato>'s Progeny: How Socrates and Plato
Still Captivate the Modern Mind (2001).
IFTIKHAR MALIK is Senior Lecturer in History,
Bath Spa University. His publications include
State and Civil Society in Pakistan: Politics
of Authority, Ideology and Ethnicity (1996),
Islam, Nationalism and the
West: Issues of
Identity in Pakistan (1999), and Islam
and Modernity: Muslims in Europe and the
United States (2003).
ALI A. MAZRUI holds, among many other titles,
that of Albert Schweizer Professor in the Humanities
and Director of the Institute of Global Cultural
Studies at Binghamton, State University of New York,
and of Albert Luthuli Professor-at-Large in the
Humanities and Development Studies at the University
of Jos in Nigeria. His recent books include Black
Reparations in the Era of Globalisation (2002)
and The African Predicament and the American
Experience: A Tale of Two Edens (2004). He
authored and narrated the BBC series <'Africans:
A Triple Heritage>' (1986).
BHIKHU PAREKH is former Deputy Chair of the
Commission for Racial Equality, and Chair of the
Runnymede Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic
Britain. He holds professorships at both Hull
University and the London School of Economics, and
is a working Labour peer. His books include
Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity
and Political Theory (2000) and Gandhi: A Very
Short Introduction (2001).
CARYL PHILLIPS is a writer and Professor of
English at Yale University. His fiction includes
Cambridge (1991), Crossing the River (1993),
The Nature of Blood (1997), and A Distant
Shore (2001). Among his works of non-fiction are
The Atlantic Sound (2000), The New World
Order (2001), and the anthology Extravagant
Strangers: A Literature of Belonging (1997).
His latest novel is Dancing in the Dark (2005).
JACQUELINE ROSE is Professor of English at Queen
Mary University of London. She works on modern
literature, psychoanalysis, and the political
imagination. She is the author of The Case of Peter
Pan, or the Impossibility of Children>'s Fiction
(1984), Sexuality in the Field of Vision (1986),
the Oxford
Clarendon Lectures, States of Fantasy
(1996), the novel, Albertinev (2001), On Not
Being Able to Sleep: Psychoanalysis and the Modern
World (2003), and The Question of Zion (2005).
SASKIA SASSEN is Ralph Lewis Professor of
Sociology at the University of Chicago and
Centennial Visiting Professor at the London
School of Economics. Her publications include
The Global City (1991), Globalisation and
its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of
People and Money (1998), Guests and
Aliens (1999), and Denationalisation:
Economy and Polity in a Global Digital Age
(2004).
KATE
E. TUNSTALL is Fellow and Tutor in
French at Worcester College, Oxford.
SLAVOJ ZIZEK is Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Ljubljana and former presidential
candidate for the Republic of Slovenia. His
publications include The Ticklish Subject: The
Absent Centre of Political Ontology (1999),
Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? Five
Interventions on the (Mis)Use of a Notion
(2001), and Welcome to the Desert of the
Real: Five Essays on September 11th (2002).
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Kate E. Tunstall: Introduction
Part One: Human Rights
1: Bhikhu Parekh (Response by Seyla Benhabib): Finding a Proper Place for Human Rights
2: Slavoj Zizek (Response by Michael Ignatieff): Against an Ideology of Human Rights
3: Ali A. Mazrui (Response by Iftikhar H. Malik): Strangers in our Midst
Part Two: Displacement, Asylum, Migration
4: Matthew J. Gibney (Response by Melissa Lane): A Thousand Little Guantanamos: Western States and Measures to Prevent the Arrival of Refugees
5: Saskia Sassen (Response by Christian Joppke): 1. The Repositioning of Citizenship and Alienage: Emergent Subjects and Spaces for Politics
6: Caryl Phillips (Response by Elleke Boehmer): Border Crossings
7: Harold Hongju Koh (Response by Rey Koslowski): The New Global Slave Trade
8: Jacqueline Rose (Response by Ali Abunimah): Displacement in Zion
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