TY  - CHAP
A1  - Hänel, Hilkje C.
A2  - Schweiger, Gottfried
T1  - Epistemic injustice and recognition theory: what we owe to refugees
T2  - Migration, recognition and critical theory
N2  - This paper starts from the premise that Western states are connected to some of the harms refugees suffer from. It specifically focuses on the harm of acts of misrecognition and its relation to epistemic injustice that refugees suffer from in refugee camps, in detention centers, and during their desperate attempts to find refuge. The paper discusses the relation between hermeneutical injustice and acts of misrecognition, showing that these two phenomena are interconnected and that acts of misrecognition are particularly damaging when (a) they stretch over different contexts, leaving us without or with very few safe spaces, and (b) they dislocate us, leaving us without a community to turn to. The paper then considers the ways in which refugees experience acts of misrecognition and suffer from hermeneutical injustice, using the case of unaccompanied children at the well-known and overcrowded camp Moria in Greece, the case of unsafe detention centers in Libya, and the case of the denial to assistance on the Mediterranean and the resulting pushbacks from international waters to Libya as well as the preventable drowning of refugees in the Mediterranean to illustrate the arguments. Finally, the paper argues for specific duties toward refugees that result from the prior arguments on misrecognition and hermeneutical injustice.
Y1  - 2021
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/63657
SN  - 978-3-030-72731-4
SN  - 978-3-030-72732-1
VL  - 21
SP  - 257
EP  - 282
PB  - Springer
CY  - Cham
ER  -