Refugee discrimination: the good, the bad, and the pragmatic

This article addresses three questions. To what extent does the current refugee regime discriminate among refugees? When is such discrimination wrong? Could discrimination ever be justified pragmatically, for the sake of admitting more refugees given political constraints? In answer to the first que...

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Author: Oberman, Kieran
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2020
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/japp.12448
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Keyword:Refugiats
Discriminació
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spelling Refugee discrimination: the good, the bad, and the pragmaticOberman, KieranRefugiatsDiscriminacióThis article addresses three questions. To what extent does the current refugee regime discriminate among refugees? When is such discrimination wrong? Could discrimination ever be justified pragmatically, for the sake of admitting more refugees given political constraints? In answer to the first question, it finds discrimination is rampant. There is the kind of discrimination that gets noticed: discrimination that states choose to enact within the refugee regime. But there is also a kind of discrimination that is missed: discrimination that is a product of the regime itself. The second question proves tricky. Matters are clear at the extremes. Discrimination based on need is permissible. Discrimination based on race or religion is not. In between, we have a set of hard cases that are more difficult to judge. The article searches for relevant criteria. Finally, on the last question, the article concludes that a political leader could be justified in enacting discrimination as a pragmatic response to political constraints but that, even on such occasions, discrimination remains wrongful.Work on this article received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 842176.Wiley202320232020info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/56971http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/japp.12448reponame:Repositorio Digital de la UPFinstname:Universitat Pompeu FabraInglésJournal of Applied Philosophy. 2020;47(5):695-712.info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/842176© 2020 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/569712026-06-12T07:21:37Z
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Oberman, Kieran
Refugiats
Discriminació
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title_full Refugee discrimination: the good, the bad, and the pragmatic
title_fullStr Refugee discrimination: the good, the bad, and the pragmatic
title_full_unstemmed Refugee discrimination: the good, the bad, and the pragmatic
title_sort Refugee discrimination: the good, the bad, and the pragmatic
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Discriminació
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Discriminació
description This article addresses three questions. To what extent does the current refugee regime discriminate among refugees? When is such discrimination wrong? Could discrimination ever be justified pragmatically, for the sake of admitting more refugees given political constraints? In answer to the first question, it finds discrimination is rampant. There is the kind of discrimination that gets noticed: discrimination that states choose to enact within the refugee regime. But there is also a kind of discrimination that is missed: discrimination that is a product of the regime itself. The second question proves tricky. Matters are clear at the extremes. Discrimination based on need is permissible. Discrimination based on race or religion is not. In between, we have a set of hard cases that are more difficult to judge. The article searches for relevant criteria. Finally, on the last question, the article concludes that a political leader could be justified in enacting discrimination as a pragmatic response to political constraints but that, even on such occasions, discrimination remains wrongful.
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