Do refugees have a duty to be grateful?

By Rebecca Buxton, Lecturer in Social and Political Philosophy, University of Bristol
Matthew J. Gibney, Professor of Politics and Forced Migration, University of Oxford

Every year millions of people leave their home countries to seek safety elsewhere. Refugees escape persecution, subvert international borders and sometimes cross oceans to seek safety. They then face a gruelling asylum adjudication system which determines whether they will receive support.

Once refugees have made these perilous journeys and are offered international protection, against all odds, some claim that they are then required to go even further: they must be grateful for it.

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