The Standing of the Immigrant and the Space of Ethics

• In Event: Human Rights and War

Brief Overview

The paper enlists the ontologies and ethical theories of Nancy and Levinas to challenge the underlying legal and conceptual models of the status of “immigrant,” and the West’s responses to asylum seekers and refugees from conflicts around the world.

Authors

• Andrew C. Fletcher, The University of Alabama

• Ali Fuat Birol, Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli Üniversitesi