Serena Parekh
Biographic Data
| ID | 187348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Serena Parekh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Serena |
| FAMILY NAME | Parekh |
| SIGNATURE | PAREKH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0148-6570 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mothering load
The current global crisis has had a significant impact on professionally engaged mothers and the proliferation of the invisible nature of the work that they are engaged in on a daily basis. Several research studies have indicated how mothers seem to have been particularly affected. Mothers experienced an exacerbation in their domestic household and child‐care responsibilities due to the absence of househelp and other child care arrangements while…
Remaining Agnostic about Blame and the Moral Status of Smugglers
The invisible frontline workers
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Indian mothers, a vulnerable group have not received adequate attention with respect to their challenges and mothering experiences. This study utilizes a feminist theoretical framework to explore the lived experiences of a cohort of urban Indian mothers of children aged 10 years and below in the context of COVID-19. Through the qualitative research method of in-depth unstructured interviews, the study identified the …
Beyond Borders
States have long denied basic rights to non-citizens within their borders, and international law imposes only limited duties on states with respect to those fleeing persecution. But even the limited rights previously enjoyed by non-citizens are eroding in the face of rising nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and racism. Beyond Borders explores what obligations we owe to those outside our political community. Drawing on contributions from a broad …
Psychological Well-Being of Indian Mothers During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study explored the associations among psychological well-being (PWB), self-compassion, psychological inflexibility (PI), and parenting stress (PS) in 242 urban Indian mothers of children 10 years old and younger in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Regression analysis revealed that greater self-compassion (SC), less PS, and greater psychological flexibility were associated with psychological well-being among the participants. Findings fr…
Vignettes of mothering through the pandemic
No Refuge
This book confronts the ethical dimension of the global refugee crisis. When most people think of the global refugee crisis, they think of Syrians crossing the Mediterranean in flimsy boats into Europe or caravans of Central Americans arriving at the US border. Yet behind these images there is a second crisis: refuge itself has all but evaporated for millions of people fleeing persecution and violence. Refugees have only three real options—squali…
Justice for migrants and refugees
This article is part of an author-meets-author symposium that focuses on my most recent book, No Refuge, and Gillian Brock’s new book, Justice for People on the Move. Both books focus on the ethical implications of how we respond to migration flows. What makes some responses to migrants and refugees acceptable and others not? What moral obligations, if any, do we have to migrants and refugees? Both Justice for People on the Move and No Refuge pro…
Reframing the refugee crisis
In this paper I argue that we should not frame the debate over whether or not we have duties to help refugees in terms of duties of rescue. This way of framing the issue, where Western states are depicted as rescuing refugees from harms unconnected to them, does not adequately represent the reality experienced by refugees in the 21 st century. I suggest that we need a framework that includes the secondary harms experienced by refugees as they try…
Refugee Crisis
"Introduction to "Displacement
This piece introduces the rationale for the special issue and highlights some of its key features. The authors have identified four broad themes in this issue, including displacement and gendered labor, displacement in art and literature, displacement embodied, and methods and theories to explore displacement. While recognizing that displacement has always been part of the human experience, these articles explore the gendered aspect of displaceme…
Feminism, Structural Injustice, and Responsibility
One of the enduring questions of feminist philosophy is how to conceptualize the injustices that women experience. The term most often used to express this unjust treatment is oppression, defined by Ann Cudd as "a harm through which groups of persons are systematically and unfairly or unjustly constrained, burdened, or reduced by any of several forces". In her early and very influential book, Justice and the Politics of Difference, Young writes t…
Refugees and the Ethics of Forced Displacement
This book is a philosophical analysis of the ethical treatment of refugees and stateless people, a group of people who, though extremely important politically, have been greatly under theorized philosophically. The limited philosophical discussion of refugees by philosophers focuses narrowly on the question of whether or not we, as members of Western states, have moral obligations to admit refugees into our countries. This book reframes this deba…
Introduction to the thematic issue ‘Refugee Crisis
This introduction discusses some of the background assumptions and recent developments of the current refugee crisis. In this issue, the crisis is not viewed as a primarily European, Western or even Syrian, Afghan, or Iraqi crisis, but as a global crisis that raises complex ethical and political challenges for all humanity. The contributions to this thematic issue discuss a variety of questions relating to the rights and duties of different actor…
Beyond the ethics of admission
This article examines our moral obligations to refugees and stateless people. I argue that in order to understand our moral obligations to stateless people, both de jure refugees and de facto stateless people, we ought to reconceptualize the harm of statelessness as entailing both a legal/political harm (the loss of citizenship) and an ontological harm, a deprivation of certain fundamental human qualities. To do this, I draw on the work of Hannah…
Reconciling with Heidegger
Hannah Arendt and Global Justice
This essay explores recent scholarship on Hannah Arendt's contribution to the field of global justice. I show that many of Arendt's ideas have been brought to bear fruitfully on some of the most pressing global issues of our day. I turn first to the area in which Arendt has, arguably, been most influential, namely human right. I then look at recent scholarship on Arendt and various issues in global justice, including immigration, statelessness, h…
Does ordinary injustice make extraordinary injustice possible? Gender, structural injustice, and the ethics of refugee determination
Our understanding of the impact of gender on refugee determination has evolved greatly over the last 60 years. Though many people initially believed that women could not be persecuted qua women, it is now frequently recognized that certain forms of gender-related persecution are sufficient to warrant asylum. Yet despite this conceptual progress, many states are still reluctant to consider certain forms of gender-related persecution to be sufficie…
Getting to the Root of Gender Inequality
In this paper, I argue that there is a philosophical basis for the claim that states can be held responsible for structural injustices such as gender discrimination and violence—a claim that has been made in international human rights documents, but one that has not gained much normative force. To show this, I draw on and develop Iris Young's notion of “political responsibility.” The purpose of political responsibility is not to find fault or bla…
Reframing Violence Against Women as a Human Rights Violation
Evan Stark claims that partner-perpetrated physical abuse and other forms of violence against women ought to be understood as a human rights violation. The authors engage Stark's rhetorically powerful political and analytical innovation by outlining one theoretical and one practical challenge to shifting the paradigm that researchers, advocates, and policy makers use to describe, explain, and remedy the harms of coercive control from misdemeanor …
Conscience, morality and judgment
This paper is an exploration of the role of conscience in the justification of human rights. I argue that in both the western tradition of natural rights and the non-western traditions, human rights are justified, in part, because of their appeal to conscience, and not simply because they issue from a divine source or are based on reason. In contrast, contemporary justifications of human rights primarily look for an objective foundation or simply…
Can a Violent Husband Violate Human Rights
Books under review in this essay: Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues, by Catharine A. MacKinnon. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. 419 pp. $35.00 hardc
A meaningful place in the world
(2004). A meaningful place in the world: Hannah Arendt on the nature of human rights. Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 41-52
Getting to the Root of Gender Inequality
In this paper, I argue that there is a philosophical basis for the claim that states can be held responsible for structural injustices such as gender discrimination and violence—a claim that has been made in international human rights documents, but one that has not gained much normative force. To show this, I draw on and develop Iris Young's notion of “political responsibility.” The purpose of political responsibility is not to find fault or bla…
A meaningful place in the world
(2004). A meaningful place in the world: Hannah Arendt on the nature of human rights. Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 41-52
Reframing Violence Against Women as a Human Rights Violation
Evan Stark claims that partner-perpetrated physical abuse and other forms of violence against women ought to be understood as a human rights violation. The authors engage Stark's rhetorically powerful political and analytical innovation by outlining one theoretical and one practical challenge to shifting the paradigm that researchers, advocates, and policy makers use to describe, explain, and remedy the harms of coercive control from misdemeanor …
The invisible frontline workers
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Indian mothers, a vulnerable group have not received adequate attention with respect to their challenges and mothering experiences. This study utilizes a feminist theoretical framework to explore the lived experiences of a cohort of urban Indian mothers of children aged 10 years and below in the context of COVID-19. Through the qualitative research method of in-depth unstructured interviews, the study identified the …
Reframing the refugee crisis
In this paper I argue that we should not frame the debate over whether or not we have duties to help refugees in terms of duties of rescue. This way of framing the issue, where Western states are depicted as rescuing refugees from harms unconnected to them, does not adequately represent the reality experienced by refugees in the 21 st century. I suggest that we need a framework that includes the secondary harms experienced by refugees as they try…
"Introduction to "Displacement
This piece introduces the rationale for the special issue and highlights some of its key features. The authors have identified four broad themes in this issue, including displacement and gendered labor, displacement in art and literature, displacement embodied, and methods and theories to explore displacement. While recognizing that displacement has always been part of the human experience, these articles explore the gendered aspect of displaceme…
Beyond the ethics of admission
This article examines our moral obligations to refugees and stateless people. I argue that in order to understand our moral obligations to stateless people, both de jure refugees and de facto stateless people, we ought to reconceptualize the harm of statelessness as entailing both a legal/political harm (the loss of citizenship) and an ontological harm, a deprivation of certain fundamental human qualities. To do this, I draw on the work of Hannah…
Mothering load
The current global crisis has had a significant impact on professionally engaged mothers and the proliferation of the invisible nature of the work that they are engaged in on a daily basis. Several research studies have indicated how mothers seem to have been particularly affected. Mothers experienced an exacerbation in their domestic household and child‐care responsibilities due to the absence of househelp and other child care arrangements while…
Vignettes of mothering through the pandemic
Introduction to the thematic issue ‘Refugee Crisis
This introduction discusses some of the background assumptions and recent developments of the current refugee crisis. In this issue, the crisis is not viewed as a primarily European, Western or even Syrian, Afghan, or Iraqi crisis, but as a global crisis that raises complex ethical and political challenges for all humanity. The contributions to this thematic issue discuss a variety of questions relating to the rights and duties of different actor…
Does ordinary injustice make extraordinary injustice possible? Gender, structural injustice, and the ethics of refugee determination
Our understanding of the impact of gender on refugee determination has evolved greatly over the last 60 years. Though many people initially believed that women could not be persecuted qua women, it is now frequently recognized that certain forms of gender-related persecution are sufficient to warrant asylum. Yet despite this conceptual progress, many states are still reluctant to consider certain forms of gender-related persecution to be sufficie…
Can a Violent Husband Violate Human Rights
Books under review in this essay: Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues, by Catharine A. MacKinnon. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. 419 pp. $35.00 hardc
A meaningful place in the world
(2004). A meaningful place in the world: Hannah Arendt on the nature of human rights. Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 41-52
Can a Violent Husband Violate Human Rights
Books under review in this essay: Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues, by Catharine A. MacKinnon. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. 419 pp. $35.00 hardc
Conscience, morality and judgment
This paper is an exploration of the role of conscience in the justification of human rights. I argue that in both the western tradition of natural rights and the non-western traditions, human rights are justified, in part, because of their appeal to conscience, and not simply because they issue from a divine source or are based on reason. In contrast, contemporary justifications of human rights primarily look for an objective foundation or simply…
Reframing Violence Against Women as a Human Rights Violation
Evan Stark claims that partner-perpetrated physical abuse and other forms of violence against women ought to be understood as a human rights violation. The authors engage Stark's rhetorically powerful political and analytical innovation by outlining one theoretical and one practical challenge to shifting the paradigm that researchers, advocates, and policy makers use to describe, explain, and remedy the harms of coercive control from misdemeanor …
Getting to the Root of Gender Inequality
In this paper, I argue that there is a philosophical basis for the claim that states can be held responsible for structural injustices such as gender discrimination and violence—a claim that has been made in international human rights documents, but one that has not gained much normative force. To show this, I draw on and develop Iris Young's notion of “political responsibility.” The purpose of political responsibility is not to find fault or bla…
Does ordinary injustice make extraordinary injustice possible? Gender, structural injustice, and the ethics of refugee determination
Our understanding of the impact of gender on refugee determination has evolved greatly over the last 60 years. Though many people initially believed that women could not be persecuted qua women, it is now frequently recognized that certain forms of gender-related persecution are sufficient to warrant asylum. Yet despite this conceptual progress, many states are still reluctant to consider certain forms of gender-related persecution to be sufficie…
Reconciling with Heidegger
Hannah Arendt and Global Justice
This essay explores recent scholarship on Hannah Arendt's contribution to the field of global justice. I show that many of Arendt's ideas have been brought to bear fruitfully on some of the most pressing global issues of our day. I turn first to the area in which Arendt has, arguably, been most influential, namely human right. I then look at recent scholarship on Arendt and various issues in global justice, including immigration, statelessness, h…
Beyond the ethics of admission
This article examines our moral obligations to refugees and stateless people. I argue that in order to understand our moral obligations to stateless people, both de jure refugees and de facto stateless people, we ought to reconceptualize the harm of statelessness as entailing both a legal/political harm (the loss of citizenship) and an ontological harm, a deprivation of certain fundamental human qualities. To do this, I draw on the work of Hannah…
Refugees and the Ethics of Forced Displacement
This book is a philosophical analysis of the ethical treatment of refugees and stateless people, a group of people who, though extremely important politically, have been greatly under theorized philosophically. The limited philosophical discussion of refugees by philosophers focuses narrowly on the question of whether or not we, as members of Western states, have moral obligations to admit refugees into our countries. This book reframes this deba…
Introduction to the thematic issue ‘Refugee Crisis
This introduction discusses some of the background assumptions and recent developments of the current refugee crisis. In this issue, the crisis is not viewed as a primarily European, Western or even Syrian, Afghan, or Iraqi crisis, but as a global crisis that raises complex ethical and political challenges for all humanity. The contributions to this thematic issue discuss a variety of questions relating to the rights and duties of different actor…
Feminism, Structural Injustice, and Responsibility
One of the enduring questions of feminist philosophy is how to conceptualize the injustices that women experience. The term most often used to express this unjust treatment is oppression, defined by Ann Cudd as "a harm through which groups of persons are systematically and unfairly or unjustly constrained, burdened, or reduced by any of several forces". In her early and very influential book, Justice and the Politics of Difference, Young writes t…
Refugee Crisis
"Introduction to "Displacement
This piece introduces the rationale for the special issue and highlights some of its key features. The authors have identified four broad themes in this issue, including displacement and gendered labor, displacement in art and literature, displacement embodied, and methods and theories to explore displacement. While recognizing that displacement has always been part of the human experience, these articles explore the gendered aspect of displaceme…
No Refuge
This book confronts the ethical dimension of the global refugee crisis. When most people think of the global refugee crisis, they think of Syrians crossing the Mediterranean in flimsy boats into Europe or caravans of Central Americans arriving at the US border. Yet behind these images there is a second crisis: refuge itself has all but evaporated for millions of people fleeing persecution and violence. Refugees have only three real options—squali…
Justice for migrants and refugees
This article is part of an author-meets-author symposium that focuses on my most recent book, No Refuge, and Gillian Brock’s new book, Justice for People on the Move. Both books focus on the ethical implications of how we respond to migration flows. What makes some responses to migrants and refugees acceptable and others not? What moral obligations, if any, do we have to migrants and refugees? Both Justice for People on the Move and No Refuge pro…
Reframing the refugee crisis
In this paper I argue that we should not frame the debate over whether or not we have duties to help refugees in terms of duties of rescue. This way of framing the issue, where Western states are depicted as rescuing refugees from harms unconnected to them, does not adequately represent the reality experienced by refugees in the 21 st century. I suggest that we need a framework that includes the secondary harms experienced by refugees as they try…
Beyond Borders
States have long denied basic rights to non-citizens within their borders, and international law imposes only limited duties on states with respect to those fleeing persecution. But even the limited rights previously enjoyed by non-citizens are eroding in the face of rising nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and racism. Beyond Borders explores what obligations we owe to those outside our political community. Drawing on contributions from a broad …
Psychological Well-Being of Indian Mothers During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study explored the associations among psychological well-being (PWB), self-compassion, psychological inflexibility (PI), and parenting stress (PS) in 242 urban Indian mothers of children 10 years old and younger in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Regression analysis revealed that greater self-compassion (SC), less PS, and greater psychological flexibility were associated with psychological well-being among the participants. Findings fr…
Vignettes of mothering through the pandemic
Remaining Agnostic about Blame and the Moral Status of Smugglers
The invisible frontline workers
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Indian mothers, a vulnerable group have not received adequate attention with respect to their challenges and mothering experiences. This study utilizes a feminist theoretical framework to explore the lived experiences of a cohort of urban Indian mothers of children aged 10 years and below in the context of COVID-19. Through the qualitative research method of in-depth unstructured interviews, the study identified the …
Mothering load
The current global crisis has had a significant impact on professionally engaged mothers and the proliferation of the invisible nature of the work that they are engaged in on a daily basis. Several research studies have indicated how mothers seem to have been particularly affected. Mothers experienced an exacerbation in their domestic household and child‐care responsibilities due to the absence of househelp and other child care arrangements while…
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