Felix Bender
Biographic Data
| ID | 3677293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Felix Bender |
| GIVEN NAMES | Felix |
| FAMILY NAME | Bender |
| SIGNATURE | BENDER F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5124-2032 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Climate refugeehood: A counterargument
This paper argues against the idea of climate change refugeehood. Drawing on political realism, it reconstructs the idea and function of refugeehood in international politics. Refugees are not the agencyless victims merely in search of rescue by states of the Global North, as the idea of climate refugeehood as a form of humanitarian refugeehood would have it. Nor are they simply a function of reparative justice, or of defending international stat…
Border Abolitionism: Migrants’ Containment and the Genealogies of Struggles and Rescue by Martina Tazzioli
Journal Article Border Abolitionism: Migrants' Containment and the Genealogies of Struggles and Rescue by Martina Tazzioli Get access Border Abolitionism: Migrants' Containment and the Genealogies of Struggles and Rescue Martina TazzioliManchester, UK; Manchester University Press, 2023. 200pp. £80.00. ISBN 978 1526 160935 Felix Bender Felix Bender Department of Social Sciences, Northumbria University, 2 Sandyford Rd, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 8SB, …
Morality in the Refugee Regime? Arguing for More (Political) Realism in Admitting Refugees
Refugees drown, are beaten, and are pushed back at the borders of the states of the Global North. Moral outrage is understandable in the face of such treatment. But does it constitute a good political theory? Can morality supply us with good normative arguments for a political world? In this article, I argue that they cannot. Drawing on political realism, I show why moral arguments for admitting refugees fail. What we require is not the extrapola…
Two-tier EU citizenship: Disposable Eastern European workers during the Covid-19 pandemic
We argue that the (mis)treatment of Eastern European migrant workers during the pandemic revealed the existence of a two-tier EU citizenship, despite the political discourse of equality within the EU. We show that this two-tier citizenship system was generated by the combined effect of differentiated rights and of prejudicious practices applied to EE citizens. In terms of differentiated rights, we refer specifically to the implementation of trans…
What's Political about Political Refugeehood? A Normative Reappraisal
What is political about political refugeehood? Theorists have assumed that refugees are special because their specific predicament as those who are persecuted sets them aside from other “necessitous strangers.” Persecution is a special form of wrongful harm that marks the repudiation of a person's political membership and that cannot—contrary to certain other harms—be remedied where they are. It makes asylum necessary as a specific remedial insti…
Should refugees govern refugee camps
Should refugees govern refugee camps? This paper argues that they should. It draws on normative political thought in consulting the all-subjected principle and an instrumental defense of democratic rule. The former holds that all those subjected to rule in a political unit should have a say in such rule. Through analyzing the conditions that pertain in refugee camps, the paper demonstrates that the all-subjected principle applies there, too. Refu…
Refugees: The politically oppressed
Who should be recognized as a refugee? This article seeks to uncover the normative arguments at the core of legal and philosophical conceptions of refugeehood. It identifies three analytically distinct approaches grounding the right to refugee status and argues that all three are normatively inadequate. Refugee status should neither be grounded in individual persecution for specific reasons (classical approach) nor in individual persecution for a…
Enfranchising the disenfranchised: Should Refugees Receive Political Rights in Liberal Democracies
Should refugees receive political rights in liberal democracies? I argue that they should. Refugees are special – at least when it comes to claims towards democratic inclusion. They lack exit options and are significantly impacted by decisions made in liberal democracies. Enfranchisement is a matter of urgency to them and should occur on a national level. But what justifies the democratic inclusion of refugees? I draw on the all-subjected princip…
Enfranchising the disenfranchised: Should Refugees Receive Political Rights in Liberal Democracies
Should refugees receive political rights in liberal democracies? I argue that they should. Refugees are special – at least when it comes to claims towards democratic inclusion. They lack exit options and are significantly impacted by decisions made in liberal democracies. Enfranchisement is a matter of urgency to them and should occur on a national level. But what justifies the democratic inclusion of refugees? I draw on the all-subjected princip…
Should refugees govern refugee camps
Should refugees govern refugee camps? This paper argues that they should. It draws on normative political thought in consulting the all-subjected principle and an instrumental defense of democratic rule. The former holds that all those subjected to rule in a political unit should have a say in such rule. Through analyzing the conditions that pertain in refugee camps, the paper demonstrates that the all-subjected principle applies there, too. Refu…
Morality in the Refugee Regime? Arguing for More (Political) Realism in Admitting Refugees
Refugees drown, are beaten, and are pushed back at the borders of the states of the Global North. Moral outrage is understandable in the face of such treatment. But does it constitute a good political theory? Can morality supply us with good normative arguments for a political world? In this article, I argue that they cannot. Drawing on political realism, I show why moral arguments for admitting refugees fail. What we require is not the extrapola…
What's Political about Political Refugeehood? A Normative Reappraisal
What is political about political refugeehood? Theorists have assumed that refugees are special because their specific predicament as those who are persecuted sets them aside from other “necessitous strangers.” Persecution is a special form of wrongful harm that marks the repudiation of a person's political membership and that cannot—contrary to certain other harms—be remedied where they are. It makes asylum necessary as a specific remedial insti…
Refugees: The politically oppressed
Who should be recognized as a refugee? This article seeks to uncover the normative arguments at the core of legal and philosophical conceptions of refugeehood. It identifies three analytically distinct approaches grounding the right to refugee status and argues that all three are normatively inadequate. Refugee status should neither be grounded in individual persecution for specific reasons (classical approach) nor in individual persecution for a…
Should refugees govern refugee camps
Should refugees govern refugee camps? This paper argues that they should. It draws on normative political thought in consulting the all-subjected principle and an instrumental defense of democratic rule. The former holds that all those subjected to rule in a political unit should have a say in such rule. Through analyzing the conditions that pertain in refugee camps, the paper demonstrates that the all-subjected principle applies there, too. Refu…
Refugees: The politically oppressed
Who should be recognized as a refugee? This article seeks to uncover the normative arguments at the core of legal and philosophical conceptions of refugeehood. It identifies three analytically distinct approaches grounding the right to refugee status and argues that all three are normatively inadequate. Refugee status should neither be grounded in individual persecution for specific reasons (classical approach) nor in individual persecution for a…
Enfranchising the disenfranchised: Should Refugees Receive Political Rights in Liberal Democracies
Should refugees receive political rights in liberal democracies? I argue that they should. Refugees are special – at least when it comes to claims towards democratic inclusion. They lack exit options and are significantly impacted by decisions made in liberal democracies. Enfranchisement is a matter of urgency to them and should occur on a national level. But what justifies the democratic inclusion of refugees? I draw on the all-subjected princip…
Two-tier EU citizenship: Disposable Eastern European workers during the Covid-19 pandemic
We argue that the (mis)treatment of Eastern European migrant workers during the pandemic revealed the existence of a two-tier EU citizenship, despite the political discourse of equality within the EU. We show that this two-tier citizenship system was generated by the combined effect of differentiated rights and of prejudicious practices applied to EE citizens. In terms of differentiated rights, we refer specifically to the implementation of trans…
What's Political about Political Refugeehood? A Normative Reappraisal
What is political about political refugeehood? Theorists have assumed that refugees are special because their specific predicament as those who are persecuted sets them aside from other “necessitous strangers.” Persecution is a special form of wrongful harm that marks the repudiation of a person's political membership and that cannot—contrary to certain other harms—be remedied where they are. It makes asylum necessary as a specific remedial insti…
Climate refugeehood: A counterargument
This paper argues against the idea of climate change refugeehood. Drawing on political realism, it reconstructs the idea and function of refugeehood in international politics. Refugees are not the agencyless victims merely in search of rescue by states of the Global North, as the idea of climate refugeehood as a form of humanitarian refugeehood would have it. Nor are they simply a function of reparative justice, or of defending international stat…
Border Abolitionism: Migrants’ Containment and the Genealogies of Struggles and Rescue by Martina Tazzioli
Journal Article Border Abolitionism: Migrants' Containment and the Genealogies of Struggles and Rescue by Martina Tazzioli Get access Border Abolitionism: Migrants' Containment and the Genealogies of Struggles and Rescue Martina TazzioliManchester, UK; Manchester University Press, 2023. 200pp. £80.00. ISBN 978 1526 160935 Felix Bender Felix Bender Department of Social Sciences, Northumbria University, 2 Sandyford Rd, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 8SB, …
Morality in the Refugee Regime? Arguing for More (Political) Realism in Admitting Refugees
Refugees drown, are beaten, and are pushed back at the borders of the states of the Global North. Moral outrage is understandable in the face of such treatment. But does it constitute a good political theory? Can morality supply us with good normative arguments for a political world? In this article, I argue that they cannot. Drawing on political realism, I show why moral arguments for admitting refugees fail. What we require is not the extrapola…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (5 works) · Normative (4 works) · Political Theology and Sovereignty (4 works) · Refugee (4 works)