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The Dissenter · 2026-05-08 · 75 min · 10,527 words

#1251 Bradley Hillier-Smith: The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees

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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Bradley Hillier-Smith. He's an associate lecturer at the University of St. Andrews in the UK.

And today we're going to talk about his book, The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees. So Dr. Hillier Smith, welcome to the show. It's a big pleasure to have you one. Thank you for having me.

It's a pleasure to be here. So Let me ask you before we get into the actual content of your book, so what motivated you to write this book? I mean, is it because of the current uh political moment we're going through or at least some of our recent political history in terms of refugee crisis and dealing with the refugees politically, is it because it's just a topic that you've been interested in or both or something else?

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