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ethical perspectives on Europe's refugee policy
"This volume offers a systematic philosophical analysis of the normative challenges facing European refugee policy, focusing on whether the response to it can be based on European values. By considering the refugee policy through the lens of European values, cosmopolitan norms, and universal human rights, the contributions expose the weaknesses and limitations of existing regulations and make proposals on how to improve them. The EU is often seen as a cosmopolitan project. Europe is supposed to be a community of states that aspires to be guided by cosmopolitan norms. However, the idea of a cosmopolitan Europe has never been unanimously shared, and in recent years, it has come under increasing scrutiny, particularly with regards to the EU's refugee policy. The guiding idea of this book is that a deeper philosophical understanding of the normative issues at stake can foster greater conceptual clarity and enrich political debates on the future of European refugee policy. The first part of the book revolves around the question of whether the rise in refugee numbers over the past decade has led to a crisis in the EU and, if so, how this crisis relates to or impacts European values. The second part traces the history of the discourse on "European values" and examines from a philosophical perspective how we can plausibly understand these values in terms of their moral grammar, their normative content, and their implications for the behaviour of the EU and its member states. Finally, the third part puts forth recommendations for a feasible and normatively more compelling European refugee policy based on human rights, human dignity, justice, and democratic self-determination as the decisive normative requirements. European Values, Cosmopolitan Norms, and the Refugee Crisis will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in ethics, political philosophy, political science, social sciences, and law"--
The European refugee crisis : what is it a crisis of? / Matthias Hoesch -- Europe's migration policy between a global and local legitimation crisis / Andreas Niederberger -- Young and ambivalent : a new look at the recent rise of European values, their history, precursors and critics / Wim Weymans -- What are "European values"? : philosophical reflections on an opaque political concept / Marie Göbel -- "Wo sind EUre Werte?": remarks on the practical response to values / Philipp Schink -- Cosmopolitanism, global justice and refugees : minimal moral conditions for EU refugee policy / Therese Herrmann -- Human rights and the EU's responsibilities towards refugees /Jos Philips -- Refugee and migration policy on the basis of human dignity / Marcus Düwell -- The European Union's refugee policies : cosmopolitan and/or democratic? / Martin Deleixhe.
edited by Marie Göbel and Andreas Niederberger.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Marie Gb̲el is a research associate at the Philosophy Department of the University of Bochum, Germany, and the project coordinator of the Digital Kant Center NRW, project location Bochum. From 2019 to 2021, she was a member of the Horizon2020 research project Norms and Values in the European Migration and Refugee Crisis (NoVaMigra). Her research focuses on human rights, human dignity, metaethical questions and Kant's practical philosophy. She is the author of Human Dignity as the Ground of Human Rights: A Study in Moral Philosophy and Legal Practice (2019) and several papers on Kant and human dignity. Andreas Niederberger is professor of political, legal and social philosophy and deputy chair of the Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He was coordinator of the Horizon2020 research project Norms and Values in the European Migration and Refugee Crisis (NoVaMigra). His research focuses on migration and refugee ethics, human rights, democratic theory, theories of normativity and social ontology. Among his publications are Republican Democracy: Liberty, Law and Politics (co-edited with Philipp Schink, 2013), Internationale Politische Theorie (co-edited with R. Kreide, 2016) and Klimawandel und Ethik (co-edited with J. Gehrmann, R. Langer, 2020).
Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy