The Political Philosophy of Internal Displacement

Jamie Draper, Assistant Professor in the Ethics Institute, Utrecht University,David Owen, Professor of Social and Political Philosophy, University of Southampton

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.

Introduction, David Owen
Part I. The Harms and Wrongs of Displacement
1. The Harms of Internal Displacement beyond Human Rights, Laura Santi Amantini
2. The Wrong of Involuntary Displacement, David Miller
Part II. Autonomy, Change, and Types of Displacement
3. Autonomy and Adapting to Change, Cara Nine
4. Anticipatory and Reactive Displacement, Jamie Draper
Part III. How Should We Conceptualize and Protect IDPs?
5. At Home in the World: Internal Displacement and Moral Repair, Michael Blake
6. Internal Displacement and International Protection, Eilidh Beaton
Part IV. Internal Displacement in the Global North and the Global South
7. Healing Trauma, Seeing Victims: Justice for IDPs in Colombia, Allison B. Wolf
8. Internal Displacement in the Global North, Rebecca Buxton
Part V. IDPs and Climate Change
9. Climate Change and Internal Displacement, Matthew Lister
10. Internal Climate Migration and Territorial Justice, Anna Stilz
Part VI. Return, Reintegration, and the Harm of Displacement Revisited
11. Ending Internal Displacement: Normative Standards, Ethical Challenges, Megan Bradley
12. The Place Left Behind: Rethinking the Harms of Forced Internal Displacement, Paulina Ochoa Espejo