The Political Philosophy of Internal Displacement

The situation of internally displaced persons has been a matter of international concern - and legal debate - since at least the late 1990s and early 2000s, and its salience has only increased in the context of extreme weather events produced by intensifying climate change. Research in political philosophy, however, has so far barely touched on this issue, despite its close connection to and relevance for lively and expansive debates on migration, refugees, territorial rights, state sovereignty, and climate change. This volume aims to set the philosophical agenda for articulating a political ethics of internal displacement, and to highlight the importance of the phenomenon for these wider theoretical issues. Across 12 chapters that explore different aspects of internal displacement, authors working at the forefront of these debates construct a compelling research agenda for the political philosophy of internal displacement.

1 - The Harms of Internal Displacement beyond Human Rights
2 - The Wrong of Involuntary Displacement
3 - Autonomy and Adapting to Change
4 - Anticipatory and Reactive Displacement
5 - At Home in the World: Internal Displacement and Moral Repair
6 - Internal Displacement and International Protection
7 - Healing Trauma, Seeing Victims: Justice for IDPs in Colombia
8 - Internal Displacement in the Global North
9 - Climate Change and Internal Displacement
10 - Internal Climate Migration and Territorial Justice
11 - Ending Internal Displacement: Normative Standards, Ethical Challenges
12 - The Place Left Behind: Rethinking the Harms of Forced Internal Displacement

Jamie Draper is an Assistant Professor in the Ethics Institute at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, Oxford. His research focuses on migration, climate change, and urban politics, and he is the author of Climate Displacement (OUP, 2023) David Owen is Professor of Social and Political Philosophy at the University of Southampton. He has published widely across the areas of post-Kantian social and political philosophy (especially on Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Frankfurt School); problems of global political community (especially on citizenship, multiculturalism, and migration); and democratic theory.