Contribution to Book
Social Readiness: Care Ethics and Migration
Compassionate Migration and Regional Policy
(2017)
Abstract
This chapter aims at investigating an overlooked aspect of social change in regard to migration: the ethical readiness of a society to welcome and care for migrants. In this context, ethical readiness refers to the extent to which members of a society are morally prepared and equipped to engage in responsive caring as described by the work of care ethicists. Social readiness is not centrally about rules or rights, although these are important markers of a cultural maturity regarding care. Rather, social readiness refers to the cognitive and emotional habits of care that a society has developed including those of empathetic imagination, as well as a willingness to learn and take action. Although the specific concern in this chapter is in regard to caring for migrants, on a larger theoretical scale, migration becomes a test case for the question of whether a society can care and what makes such caring possible.
Keywords
- care ethics,
- readiness,
- migration,
- education
Disciplines
Publication Date
2017
Editor
Steven W. Bender and William Arrocha
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Citation Information
Maurice Hamington. "Social Readiness: Care Ethics and Migration" Compassionate Migration and Regional Policy (2017) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/maurice_hamington/49/