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Britannia's embrace : modern humanitarianism and the imperial origins of refugee relief / Caroline Shaw.

Shaw, Caroline, 1979- (författare)
ISBN 9780190200985
Publicerad: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Copyright: ©2015
Engelska ix, 313 pages
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  • Introduction: Britannia's Embrace -- Part I. The Rise of Liberal Refuge -- Catholic Émigrés and the Protestant Nation -- The Consolation of Refuge -- Telling Stories, Taking Action -- Taking Refuge in Empire -- Colonial Refuge in the Metropolitan Eye -- Part II. A National Tradition or a Universal Right? : Refuge and the Law -- Heroes, Villains, and the Parameters of Political Asylum -- Probing the Limits of Imperial Humanitarianism -- Hardening the Humanitarian Heart -- Conclusion: Moral Politics and the Quest for a Language of Right.
  • "On the eve of the American Revolution, the refugee was, according to British tradition, a Protestant who sought shelter from continental persecution. By the turn of the twentieth century, however, British refuge would be celebrated internationally as being open to all persecuted foreigners. Britain had become a haven for fugitives as diverse as Karl Marx and Louis Napoleon, Simón Bolívar and Frederick Douglass. How and why did the refugee category expand? How, in a period when no law forbade foreigners entry to Britain, did the refugee emerge as a category for humanitarian and political action? Why did the plight of these particular foreigners become such a characteristically British concern? Current understandings about the origins of refuge have focused on the period after 1914. Britannia's Embrace offers the first historical analysis of the origins of this modern humanitarian norm in the long nineteenth century. At a time when Britons were reshaping their own political culture, this charitable endeavor became constitutive of what it meant to be liberal on the global stage. Like British anti-slavery, its sister movement, campaigning on behalf of foreign refugees seemed to give purpose to the growing empire and the resources of empire gave it greater strength. By the dawn of the twentieth century, British efforts on behalf of persecuted foreigners declined precipitously, but its legacies in law and in modern humanitarian politics would be long-lasting. In telling this story, Britannia's Embrace puts refugee relief front and center in histories of human rights and international law and of studies of Britain in the world. In so doing, it describes the dynamic relationship between law, resources, and moral storytelling that remains critical to humanitarianism today"-- 

Ämnesord

Liberalism  (sao)
Refugees  -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)
Political refugees  -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)
Humanitarianism  -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)
Refugees  -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)
Asylum, Right of  -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)
Imperialism  -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)
Liberalism  -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain.  (bisacsh)
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights.  (bisacsh)
HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century.  (bisacsh)
Asylum, Right of.  (fast)
Emigration and immigration.  (fast)
Humanitarianism.  (fast)
Liberalism.  (fast)
Political refugees.  (fast)
Politics and government.  (fast)
Refugees.  (fast)
Imperialism  -- Social aspects. (fast)
Refugees  -- Government policy. (fast)
Flyktingar  -- historia (sao)
Asylrätt  -- historia (sao)
Imperialism  -- sociala aspekter (sao)
Liberalism  (LCSH)
Storbritannien  (sao)
Great Britain  -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)
Great Britain  -- Politics and government -- 19th century. (LCSH)
Great Britain.  (fast)
1800-talet  (sao)
1800 - 1899  (fast)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Klassifikation

HV640.4.G7 (LCC)
362.8780941 (DDC)
Oh (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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