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11 - Asylum

from Part II - Concretion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 June 2022

Ángel R. Oquendo
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University of Connecticut
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dated conception of international law that refuses to die lies at the heart of today’s global refugee crisis. It posits states as sovereignly impervious and self-contained units and as the only apposite actors on the world stage. Efforts to incentivize countries generally to welcome more people seeking refuge and specifically to adopt fair standards of entry crash against this still entrenched outlook. Activists and practitioners must simultaneously debunk the prevailing standpoint and, against all odds, construct an alternative. The latter desperately needs definition and elaboration. As a whole, it must re-imagine the planet as inclusive of the traditionally excluded: such as nongovernmental organizations; non-organized groups; societal communities; persons of all races, ethnicities, genders, and religions; animals; plants; minerals; and so forth. As a most elemental part of this narrative, self-determining and solely partially sovereign nations may neither do as they please within or at their borders nor expect to be left alone in so doing. Instead, they must honor their responsibilities to a wide array of private and public parties, both at home and abroad, while acting autonomously and resisting heteronomy or domination.

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Print publication year: 2022

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  • Asylum
  • Ángel R. Oquendo, University of Connecticut
  • Book: Through Thin and Thick
  • Online publication: 18 June 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108776288.012
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  • Asylum
  • Ángel R. Oquendo, University of Connecticut
  • Book: Through Thin and Thick
  • Online publication: 18 June 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108776288.012
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  • Asylum
  • Ángel R. Oquendo, University of Connecticut
  • Book: Through Thin and Thick
  • Online publication: 18 June 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108776288.012
Available formats
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