RT Article
T1 Rethinking vulnerability as a radically ethical device: ethical vulnerability analysis and the EU’s "Migration Crisis"
JF Human rights review
VO 24
IS 2
SP 263
OP 288
A1 Da Lomba, Sylvie
A2 Vermeylen, Saskia
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1852759674
AB 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.
K1 Temporary protection
K1 Ukraine
K1 migration crisis
K1 EU asylum and migration policies
K1 Hospitality
K1 Ethical vulnerability analysis
DO 10.1007/s12142-023-00685-5