Pleased to have the opportunity to talk about the themes of my new book, #AsylumasReparation, for a podcast as part of the Ilkley Literature Festival @ilklitfest #ILF22. Also nice to take part in a festival based in the town I now call home #Ilkleybit.ly/3vBrxyn
The book concludes that #AsylumasReparation ‘looks set to retain a grim relevance…as the 21st century progresses’, but that I wrote it in the hope that it may ‘serve to strengthen attempts at achieving accountability for the…harms of displacement’ bit.ly/33OwPuM 5/7
Part III: Domestic and International Implications
How might #AsylumasReparation affect the treatment and prioritisation of refugees in states of asylum? bit.ly/3AvUPPa
How might it affect the international politics of refugee protection? bit.ly/35ooheA 4/7
Part II: When should asylum act as a form of reparation?
How directly must a state have caused displacement to owe #AsylumasReparation? bit.ly/3G1eRC8
When is asylum the most fitting form of reparation for the harms of displacement? bit.ly/33QY9sn 3/7
My new book, #AsylumasReparation, analyses the responsibilities of external states to refugees they have created bit.ly/3qoizAn
The following tweets will give a sense of the main questions I explore throughout the book… (1/7)