The Limits of Hospitality in the Mexican- United States Border (original) (raw)

The Dire Need for Radical Hospitality or Derrida on the Borders

In this article we examine the current political situation of migrants trying to enter Poland through the lens of two lectures on hospitality given by Jacques Derrida in 1996. We analyze Derrida’s notions of “laws of hospitality” and “absolute hospitality” as deconstruction of Kantian and Hegelian moral ideas, especially Hegel’s Sittlichkeit. The text outlines the situation of the humanitarian crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border, as well as the issue of migration of people from Ukraine after February 24, 2022. Using Derrida's terms and concepts, we try to show the impact of ethical issues on the process of helping in the context of state policy.

Porous Borders, Priority Rules, and the Virtue of Hospitality

Public Theology and the Global Common Good, 2016

In a festschrift celebrating the work of David Hollenbach, SJ, the author reflects on the notion of porous borders in Catholic Social Thought on migration, and on some priority rules suggested by Hollenbach to adjudicate between the conflicting rights claims of migrants, refugees and citizens. The author also refers to the virtue of hospitality which can help us go beyond speaking of duties and possibly deal with some of the current policy impasses.

From an Ethic of Hospitality: Reflections on Democracy, Citizenship and Migrations

2018

The article focuses on a reflection about hospitality, thought from inhospitable experiences and aimed at critically rethinking the reactions to the underprivileged, the pilgrim, the migrant, from the assessment of host actions, the ethics of care and the irruption of otherness. It proposes going beyond the observation of data: migratory flows, xenophobic reactions or associated criminal forms and interpreting them from a constructive approach to conflicts, the demands of an inclusive citizenship and the rethinking of the axes of democratic life. Based on the thinking of D. Innerarity, the article associates the ethics of hospitality with the ethics of care, solidarity and life and poses it as a useful tool for dealing with the migratory flows of the Mediterranean and Latin American Space. From an approach of vulnerability situations associated with migrations, the possibilities of empathy, prudential reason and the demands of effectiveness from a bioethical and biopolitical perspec...

The Laws of Hospitality, Asylum Seekers and Cosmopolitan Right : A Kantian Response to Jacques Derrida

The purpose of this article is to respond to Jacques Derrida’s reading of Immanuel Kant’s laws of hospitality and to offer a deeper exploration into Kant’s separation of a cosmopolitan right to visit (Besuchsrecht) and the idea of a universal right to reside (Gastrecht). Through this discussion, the various laws of hospitality will be examined, extrapolated and outlined, particularly in response to the tensions articulated by Derrida. By doing so, this article will offer a reinterpretation of the laws of hospitality, arguing that hospitality is not meant to capture all the conditions necessary for cosmopolitan citizenship or for a thoroughgoing condition of cosmopolitan justice as Derrida assumes. This is because hospitality could be understood as the basic normative requirement necessary to establish an ethical condition for intersubjective communication at the global level, where discursive communication regarding the substance of a future condition of cosmopolitan justice is to be subjected to global public reason.

Migration Crisis and the Duty of Hospitality: A Kantian Discussion

МЕЃУНАРОДЕН ДИЈАЛОГ: ИСТОК - ЗАПАД, 2020

The European ideals – as well as the idea of Europe per se – are faced with a serious challenge due to recent migration crisis: it is not just the reflexes, the effectiveness and the policies, but also the consistency, the principles and the justification of the notion of the European Union that is in stake. Kant’s concept of universal hospitality could probably provide a good way out of this conundrum: while hospitality has largely been viewed as a solidarity-related imperfect duty towards others, that is, a less compelling duty that allows moral agents for certain latitude concerning the occasions and the degree of its implementation, Kant’s views allow for a totally different perspective, and, in my view, a much more philosophically nuanced one: hospitality might also be considered as an autonomy-based duty owed to others, and in this respect could count as a perfect, morally compelling duty. To the extent that the concept of Europe consists in humanitarian ideals that are based upon a strong philosophical humanistic tradition, I consider my claim to be in perfect harmony with the true spirit of Europe.

From hostility to hospitality: envisioning migration beyond the border

Theological Education for a Migration Centurie, 2023

In this essay, we propose to review the way we usually look at migration, which, in general, tends to be viewed according to its phenomenological aspects, i.e., the events or phenomena that take place at the borders themselves. We are clearly not unaware, that it is through pain that the issue of migration is manifested

Breaking with the Law of Hospitality? The Emergence of Illegal Aliens in Europe vis-à-vis Derrida's Deconstruction of the Conditions of Welcome

In two seminars published under the title De l'hospitalité/Of Hospitality (J. Derrida [1997Derrida [ ] 2000 and in other writings too, Jacques Derrida invites his readers to consider some differences between 'conditional hospitality', that is 'the right to or pact of hospitality' on the one hand and 'the absolute or unconditional hospitality' on the other. By emphasizing the incommensurability between the two in antinomic terms, Derrida has indeed questioned established practices of welcoming foreigners while insisting on a sense of hospitality that is not bound by and to its immediate legalisation. The following article will attempt to trace the limits of Derrida's deconstruction of the conditions of welcome by arguing that for those estimated millions of people who are commonly dismissed as illegal aliens in liberal democratic states, such as in Europe, to 'break with hospitality in the ordinary sense' is not just a hyperbolic ethical imperative -it also feels like a bleak verdict. Otherwise said, what is the potential use value of Derrida's thinking of a transgressive hospitality given the evidence that far too many are actually living in extremely inhospitable

Otherwise Than Hospitality: A Disputation on the Relation of Ethics to Law and Politics

Law and Critique, 2009

At a time of unprecedented migration and social displacement, following a century ravaged by war and hegemonic shift, the question of hospitality presents itself with unparalleled urgency. Taking his cue from Immanuel Kant’s cosmopolitics, Jacques Derrida addressed this question by deliberating on the nature of the political obligation to the other person. Invoking the work of Emmanuel Levinas, this demand is first of all ethical, and unconditional. But Derrida was also acutely aware of the residual violence of the hospitable gesture, which always takes place in a scene of power. The resultant aporias at the heart of hospitality provoked debate between the two authors at the 2007 Critical Legal Conference, and this paper seeks to elucidate and elaborate on this encounter. At stake are the matters of the potential political forms of hospitality, whether it should always be striven for and, ultimately, how one can conceptually reconcile its ethics with its violence.