Border rescue

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• dc.contributor.author Oberman, Kieran
• dc.date.accessioned 2020-06-29T09:49:36Z
• dc.date.available 2020-06-29T09:49:36Z
• dc.date.issued 2019
• dc.description.abstract Every year, thousands of refugees and other migrants die trying to cross borders. The dangers are many. Migrants die from exhaustion crossing deserts, freeze on mountain passes, drown at sea. One way states can save lives is by undertaking rescue operations. This chapter asks whether receiving states have any special duty to do so. The idea of a ‘special duty’ here can be brought out with the following question: Do receiving states owe a duty to rescue migrants at borders that they do not owe all people in need? In answering this question, the chapter starts with an important yet easily overly looked point: crossing borders is not inherently dangerous. Migrants die crossing borders because receiving states restrict migration. This fact, in itself, does not mean that receiving states have a special duty to rescue, but it does mean they cannot claim that border deaths are nothing to do with them. The question we need to ask is whether receiving states bear moral responsibility for border deaths as well as causal responsibility. The chapter goes in search of, and finds, arguments for why receiving states are morally responsible. States cannot treat border deaths like any other misfortune without changing their immigration policies.
• dc.description.sponsorship Work on this chapter received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 842176.
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• dc.identifier.citation Oberman K. Border rescue. In: Miller D, Straehle C, editors. The political philosophy of refuge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2019. p. 78-96.
• dc.identifier.isbn 9781108472159
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/45048
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Cambridge University Press - Core
• dc.relation.ispartof Miller D, Straehle C, editors. The political philosophy of refuge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2019. p. 78-96.
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/842176
• dc.rights This material has been published in The political philosophy of refuge by Miller D, Straehle C. This version is free to view and download for personal use only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © Cambridge University Press
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• dc.subject.keyword Refugees
• dc.subject.keyword Migrants
• dc.subject.keyword Immigration
• dc.subject.keyword Ethics of immigration
• dc.subject.keyword Duty to rescue
• dc.subject.keyword Search and rescue
• dc.subject.keyword Moral responsibility
• dc.subject.keyword James Pattison
• dc.subject.keyword Alexander Betts
• dc.subject.keyword Paul Collier
• dc.title Border rescue
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