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There are currently over 43 million refugees worldwide. This course analyses key philosophical issues in ethics and political philosophy that arise within global displacement. Throughout the course, students will understand and engage with difficult philosophical questions and debates regarding refugees and global displacement such as whether there is a morally relevant distinction between refugees and other migrants, whether states have a right to control their borders, the status of refugees’ human rights, what political and moral obligations states owe to refugees and how they ought to be distributed, the ethics of the use of refugee camps, and ethical state responses to refugees.