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Dan Bulley 2017
First published 2017
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Praise for Migration, Ethics and Power
We live in an age of humanitarianism, a time when the highest form of politics and the noblest form of citizenship is to help others. This book places this new pastoralism in a different light. What if all this saving, sheltering and caring is not a new softness tempering the harsh edges of power but increasingly one of powers most privileged mechanisms? Richly contextualized, incisive and provocative, this book will change the way we understand hospitality. To the history of social struggle it adds a new antagonism: host/guest, truly a dialectic for our time.
William Walters, Professor of Political Science, Carleton University
Migration, Ethics and Power investigates the interaction of ethics and power in a range of spaces of hospitality that operate at and beyond the margins of the international state system. It astutely reveals that when people seek to cross borders or create spaces of their own, migration develops and hospitality is accessed, presumed, appropriated, or rebuffed. Dan Bulleys critical exploration and insightful analysis shows that while hospitality can be experienced as a right, a form of exchange, an act of compassion, or clandestine or abusive, it is always a matter of ethics, power and space. In this book, the everyday ethics of hospitality takes the form of diverse spaces including homelands, refugee camps, global cities, postcolonial states, and a supranational community, from which the author uniquely explores the themes of post-sovereign ethics and power in international politics. Brilliantly perceptive and passionately engaged, Migration, Ethics and Power will be of great interest to those who are concerned with the everyday practices of hospitality, post-sovereign spaces, and international ethics and politics.
Suzan Ilcan, Professor of Sociology, University of Waterloo
Dan Bulleys Migration, Ethics and Power is a highly original contribution to the ethics and politics of international hospitality. It is philosophically astute, conceptually innovative and is distinguished by the depth of its political and ethical attunement.
Michael Shapiro, Professor of Political Science, University of Hawaii
Bulleys Migration, Ethics and Power is a timely reminder that beyond the oft-discussed statist politics of the refugee crisis there is an ethical response to the refugee crisis that is already unfolding within, and beyond, states. That hospitality is productive of specific subjectivities and spaces, from which more hopeful and humane relations might form. This is the right book for the right moment.
Jason Dittmer, Professor of Geography, University College London
This book is an untimely if urgent invitation to think about migration as an ethical and political subject through the paradoxes of hospitality/hostility. With a persistent focus on spaces where such paradoxes are played out ranging from mosques, camps, cities, borders, hotels, homes, and states it provides a challenging perspective on sovereignty as spatial practice across frontiers. Both students and researchers in migration studies, refugee studies, international studies, and citizenship studies will immensely benefit from engaging with this invitation to think differently about where sovereignty is practiced and how it functions.
Engin Isin, Professor of Politics, The Open University
This book provides a provocative discussion of hospitality as a key but often overlooked topic structuring the field of International Relations. From the refugee camp to the global city, this exploration provides a timely look into how various spaces are produced in relation to hospitality and the power relations within that both enable and limit its practice. Defining the the crossing of borders as the hallmark of hospitality, this book will be an important read for those wishing to think seriously about the ethics of hospitality in light of growing numbers of people on the move but also out of place.
Kim Rygiel, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University