Reimagining Asylum
Religious Narratives and the Moral Obligation to the Asylum Seeker
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11404753 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Silas W Allard (0000-0003-4089-8356, Emory University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 121-129 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-18 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Refuge Canada s Journal on Refuge (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0229-5113 • E-ISSN: 1920-7336 |
| Publisher | York University Libraries (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.25071/1920-7336.37521 |
| OpenAlex | W1820400594 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The narrative that grounds the asylum policy of the United States portrays asylum seekers as passive objects of external forces. This narrative emerges from the complex interplay of exceptionality and victimization that characterizes the legal status and popular perception of the refugee. It is then read back onto the asylum seeker through a supereroga- tory asylum policy that is unable to recognize the moral demand made by the asylum seeker. The project this essay is drawn from seeks to challenge the policy of asylum as charity by interrogating alternative narratives grounded in the Hebrew Bible story of the Exodus and the Qu’ranic story of the Hijra. In these narratives, flight from oppression is portrayed as an act of moral agency, and the asylum seeker’s capacity as Other to make a moral demand on the Self emerges. Thus, I argue that an asylum policy informed by these alternative narratives needs must question its supererogatory assumptions
Agency (philosophy · Asylum seeker · Criminology · Literature · Moral agency · Moral obligation · Narrative · Obligation · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Social science · Sociology · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Religion, Society, and Development · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
| Citations per year | 0.38 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2021 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |