Emma Larking

Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights

Life Outside the Pale of the Law

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book combines philosophical, historical, and legal analysis to clarify the key concepts at stake in the debate over refugees and human rights, and to demonstrate the threat posed by contemporary border regimes to rights protection and the rule of law within liberal democracies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781472430076
• ISBN-10: 1472430077
• Artikelnr.: 57057121

Autorenporträt

Emma Larking is a Visiting Fellow in the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights: Life Outside the Pale of the Law
Part I Part I
Chapter 1 Scum of the Earth I
Chapter 2 Rights and the Nation-state
Chapter 3 of of Origins. In the German version of the book the title is 'Die Aporien der Menschenrechte', or 'The Aporias of the Rights of Man' (, 756 fn. 3).
Part II Part II
Chapter 4 Natural Law and the False Promise of a Universal Community of Equals
Chapter 5 Liberalism's False Promise I: Locke
Chapter 6 Liberalism's False Promise II: Kant
Part III Part III
Chapter 7 Scum of the Earth II: Contemporary Refugees
Chapter 8 The International Human Rights Regime and the Sovereignty of States
Chapter 9 The Right to Have Rights and a New Law on Earth