Displacement, Asylum, Migration: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2004

Displacement, Asylum, Migration Kate E. Tunstall is Fellow and Tutor in French at Worcester College, Oxford The Oxford Amnesty Lectures is a registered charity. Its purpose is to raise funds to increase awareness of Amnesty International in the academic and wider communities. It is otherwise independent of Amnesty International. It began as a fund-raising project for the local Amnesty group in Oxford, and is now one of the world’s leading name-lecture series. To date, Oxford Amnesty Lectures has raised over £100,000 for Amnesty International. Displacement, Asylum, Migration The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2004 Edited by Kate E. Tunstall 1 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York © Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2006 The moral rights of the authors have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) First published 2006 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organizations. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Data available Typeset by RefineCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by Clays Ltd., St Ives plc ISBN 0–19–280724–2 978–0–19–280724–3 Preface The lectures on which this book is based were originally given in the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford in January and February 2004. I should like to express my gratitude to all the lecturers––Slavoj Zizek, Bhikhu Parekh, Caryl Phillips, Saskia Sassen, Harold Hongju Koh, Jacqueline Rose, and Ali Mazrui––for coming to speak in Oxford and for giving us permission to publish their lectures in aid of Amnesty International. I am grateful to Matthew Gibney for writing a piece for this volume, though he did not lecture in the series. I should like also to thank the respondents––Michael Ignatieff, Seyla Benhabib, Elleke Boehmer, Christian Joppke, Rey Koslowski, Ali Abunimah, Iftikhar Malik, and Melissa Lane–– for their contributions to this book. Thanks are also due, as ever, to the other members of the Oxford Amnesty Lectures Committee without whose hard work there would be no lectures and no book.