Refugee-based Reasons in Refugee Resettlement – The Case of LGBTIQ+

Abstract: This paper discusses a recent turn in the ethics of refugee resettlement which involves taking the interests of refugees themselves into account in the distribution of refugees among potential refugee receiving countries. It argues that there is an important category of interest that does not align with the two commonly held views on what is owed to refugees: ‘safety’ or ‘conditions of a good life’. This category, focussing on the refugees’ interests in not being subjected to a variety of non-asylum-grounding injustices, should, by default, take precedence in the assessment of the refugee-based reasons in refugee resettlement. The normative salience of this category – not being subjected to injustice – is illustrated with the help of the case of LGBTIQ+ refugees, and the kinds of injustices they may be subject to in countries that provide them with asylum.

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Refugee-based Reasons in Refugee Resettlement – The Case of LGBTIQ+ ; volume:10 ; number:2 ; year:2023 ; pages:367-385 ; extent:19 ; Moral philosophy and politics ; 10, Heft 2 (2023), 367-385 (gesamt 19)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Vitikainen, Annamari

Further information

• DOI: 10.1515/mopp-2021-0069
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023101214300423984821
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 14.08.2025, 10:48 AM CEST