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Rethinking International Protection

The Sovereign, the State, the Refugee

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. Raffaela Puggioni

    1. ADA University, Baku, Azerbaijan

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  • Carves a new path in the debate on migration, international relations and asylum
  • Emphasises the difference between protection and assistance
  • Provides a special focus on migration and protection in Italy

Part of the book series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship (MDC)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Rethinking Protection

    • Raffaela Puggioni
    Pages 1-37

  3. The Sovereign of (Non)protection

    • Raffaela Puggioni
    Pages 39-77

  4. The State of Protection

    • Raffaela Puggioni
    Pages 79-117

  5. The Refugee of Protection

    • Raffaela Puggioni
    Pages 119-157

  6. Refugees’ Encampment in Italy

    • Raffaela Puggioni
    Pages 159-207

  7. Rethinking International Protection

    • Raffaela Puggioni
    Pages 209-215

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 217-233
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About this book

This book provides a critical account of the concept of international protection. The author questions the boundaries between protection and assistance, and challenges the dominant focus on state sovereignty. Drawing upon a broad range of sources, she scrutinises the central role played by the state in providing legal, social and economic protection, which entails positive obligations upon the state. Protection, in this context, does not simply mean protection from persecution, threats, and sustained violence, but emancipation. By focusing on the local and national contexts wherein protection is enacted, created and also contested, she combines the politics of protection with the practices of protection, with a special focus on Italy. The resulting arguments clarify the difference between the public responsibility to protect and the private desire to assist, between treating refugees as bearers of rights and considering them as objects of assistance. The author argues that the absenceof protection in Italy has encouraged many to leave and find protection in other EU countries.  This timely work is essential reading for students and scholars of migration, international relations and asylum politics as well as policy-makers.

Authors and Affiliations

  • ADA University, Baku, Azerbaijan

    Raffaela Puggioni

About the author

Raffaela Puggioni is Assistant Professor of International Relations at ADA University, Azerbaijan. 

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