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by Dan Bulley (Author)
In 2014, the ethics and politics of hospitality were brought into stark relief. Three years into the Syrian conflict, which had already created nearly 2.5 million refugees and internally displaced 6.5 million, the UN called on industrialised countries to share the burden of offering hospitality through a fixed quota system. The UK opted out of the system whilst hailing their acceptance of a moral responsibility by welcoming only 500 of the 'most vulnerable' Syrians. Given the state's exclusionary character, what opportunities do other spaces in international politics offer by way of hospitality to migrants and refugees?
Hospitality can take many different forms and have many diverse purposes. But wherever it occurs, the boundaries that enable it and make it possible are both created and unsettled via exercises of power and their resistance. Through modern examples including refugee camps, global cities, postcolonial states and Europe, as well as analysis of Derridean and Foucauldian concepts, Migration, Ethics and Power explores:
- The process and practice of hospitality
- The spaces that hospitality produces
- The intimate relationship between ethics and power
This is a brilliantly contemporary text for students of politics, international relations and political geography.
Author Biography
Dan Bulley is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Queen's University Belfast. His primary research interest is the way ethics and power become entangled in modern practices and spaces of international politics. Following earlier work on the ethics of British and EU foreign policy, his recent focus has been on the concept of 'hospitality' and it importance for understanding issues such as international ethics, immigration and asylum policy, EU enlargement, and humanitarian intervention. He is particularly interested in how hospitality produces irruptive international spaces which might reveal new or unthought possibilities for our inevitably political relations with strangers.
