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dc.contributor.authorHillier-Smith, Bradley
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-14T16:30:10Z
dc.date.available2022-09-14T16:30:10Z
dc.date.issued2020-06-13
dc.identifier.citationHillier-Smith , B 2020 , ' Doing and allowing harm to refugees ' , Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy , vol. 18 , no. 3 , pp. 298-321 . https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v18i3.955en
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 281275241
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dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-9261-9772/work/119212596
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/26016
dc.description.abstractMost theorists working on moral obligations to refugees conceive of western states as innocent bystanders with duties to aid refugees if they can do so at little cost to themselves. This paper challenges this dominant theoretical framing of global displacement by highlighting for the first time certain practices of western states in response to refugee flows such as border violence, detention, encampment and containment which may make us question whether states who engage in such practices are indeed innocent. This paper provides the first normative analysis of these practices by seeking to classify them as either doing or allowing harm and invoking the fundamental moral imperative central to core common moral commitments - not to harm innocent people - to suggest that certain western states are not merely failing to aid refugees and allowing harm to come to them, but are instead responding to their calls for aid by harming them.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Ethics and Social Philosophyen
dc.rightsCopyright © 2020 Author. Open Access. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.en
dc.subjectJV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migrationen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectSDG 10 - Reduced Inequalitiesen
dc.subjectSDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutionsen
dc.subjectACen
dc.subject.lccJVen
dc.titleDoing and allowing harm to refugeesen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Philosophyen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v18i3.955
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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