Overview
- Carves a new path in the debate on migration, international relations and asylum
- Emphasises the difference between protection and assistance
- Provides a special focus on migration and protection in Italy
Part of the book series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship (MDC)
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This book provides a critical account of the concept of international protection. The author questions the boundaries between protection and assistance, and challenges the dominant focus on state sovereignty. Drawing upon a broad range of sources, she scrutinises the central role played by the state in providing legal, social and economic protection, which entails positive obligations upon the state. Protection, in this context, does not simply mean protection from persecution, threats, and sustained violence, but emancipation. By focusing on the local and national contexts wherein protection is enacted, created and also contested, she combines the politics of protection with the practices of protection, with a special focus on Italy. The resulting arguments clarify the difference between the public responsibility to protect and the private desire to assist, between treating refugees as bearers of rights and considering them as objects of assistance. The author argues that the absenceof protection in Italy has encouraged many to leave and find protection in other EU countries. This timely work is essential reading for students and scholars of migration, international relations and asylum politics as well as policy-makers.
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Raffaela Puggioni is Assistant Professor of International Relations at ADA University, Azerbaijan.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rethinking International Protection
Book Subtitle: The Sovereign, the State, the Refugee
Authors: Raffaela Puggioni
Series Title: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48310-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-48309-6Published: 18 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-69450-1Published: 04 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-48310-2Published: 09 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-2602
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2610
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 233
Topics: Migration, International Relations, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, European Union Politics, Comparative Social Policy