Rethinking vulnerability as a radically ethical device: ethical vulnerability analysis and the EU’s "Migration Crisis"

We reinvigorate vulnerability theory as a radically ethical device — ethical vulnerability analysis. We bring together fuller vulnerability analysis as theorized by Fineman and Grear in conversation with Levinas and Derrida’s radical vulnerability and the ethics of hospitality to construct a theoret...

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Autor principal: Da Lomba, Sylvie (Autor)
Otros Autores: Vermeylen, Saskia
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2023
En: Human rights review
Año: 2023, Volumen: 24, Número: 2, Páginas: 263-288
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Sumario:We reinvigorate vulnerability theory as a radically ethical device — ethical vulnerability analysis. We bring together fuller vulnerability analysis as theorized by Fineman and Grear in conversation with Levinas and Derrida’s radical vulnerability and the ethics of hospitality to construct a theoretical framework that is firmly anchored in the realities of the everyday that are vulnerability and migration. This novel framework offers a thinking space to subvert approaches to migrants and migration as it compels us to come face-to face with the “other”, which in turn renders the political accountable by her.We deploy ethical vulnerability analysis to deconstruct the EU’s “migration crisis” and investigate whether the activation of temporary protection for displaced persons from Ukraine signifies a humanizing turn in the EU’s asylum and migration policies. In this regard, we submit that this hospitable moment constitutes an “exception to the rule” rather than a paradigm shift.
ISSN:1874-6306
DOI:10.1007/s12142-023-00685-5