ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 turns to a new conception of care ethics applied to political contexts of exclusionary policies and further considerations in transnational justice. The author aims for a new notion of political care in the purview of refugees’ and forced migrants’ needs by including Global South and non-Western perspectives and providing a series of intersectional analyses from care ethics and political care that address problems of misidentification. The focus on care is based on the feminist emphasis on dependency internal to ethically constituted subjectivity, which necessarily entails an interdependent and mutually constitutive relationship between self and other. Chapter 4 contends that care ethics should be reevaluated and reconceived within contemporary discussions of transnational justice and political care because of its history of provincialism and essentialization. To carry this out, the author engages scholarship from Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Shakira Hussein, and Parvati Raghuram to construct a notion of care as an emplaced practice of completion via contestation. Their writings initiate new possibilities of witness that attribute ethical agency to refugees and forced migrants beyond gendered, ethnic, and religious stereotypes. The conclusion of chapter 4 concurs with recent arguments that advocate open borders and acceptance of transnational migration as a de facto human necessity.
