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The Liberal State and the Expulsion of Members: Banishment, Denationalisation and Deportation

Matthew J Gibney

BEc, MPhil, PhD

Elizabeth Colson Professor of Politics and Forced Migration; Deputy Director

Biography

Matthew J Gibney is Professor of Politics and Forced Migration at the University of Oxford, Official Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford, and Deputy Director of the Refugee Studies Centre. He specialises in the political and ethical issues raised by refugees, citizenship, and migration control. Born in Melbourne, Australia, he was educated at Monash University (BEc (Hons)) and, as a Commonwealth Scholar, at King’s College, University of Cambridge (MPhil; PhD).

Matthew is the author of many scholarly articles, chapters and books, including The Ethics and Politics of Asylum (2004), Globalizing Rights (2003), which has been translated into Italian and Spanish, The Normative, Historical and Political Contours of Deportation (2013) (edited with Bridget Anderson and Emanuela Paoletti) and (with Randall Hansen) Immigration and Asylum (2005), a three volume encyclopedia.

His published research has dealt with issues of asylum, deportation, citizenship, globalization, and statelessness and has appeared in journals such as the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Government and Opposition, Political Studies and Citizenship Studies, as well as several anthologies of influential academic writing in migration studies and in international relations.

Matthew has given keynote lectures across the world and his work and views have been cited by the New York Times, the BBC, the Australian, the Toronto Globe and Mail and CBC Radio in Canada, amongst other media. He has held visiting professor positions at Monash University, the University of Toronto, and the University of New South Wales. He was Director of Oxford’s International Summer School in Forced Migration for almost ten years.

Refugees and justice between states
Matthew J Gibney, (2015), European Journal of Political Theory, 1 - 17
Beware states piercing holes into citizenship
Matthew Gibney (Audrey Macklin & Rainer Baubock, editors), (2015), The Return of Banishment: Do the New Denationalisation Policies Weaken Citizenship?
The Deprivation of Citizenship in the United Kingdom: A Brief History
Matthew Gibney, (2014), Journal of Immigration Asylum and Nationality Law, 28.4, 326 - 335
Political theory, ethics and forced migration
Matthew J Gibney, (2014), In: Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E., Loescher, G., Long, K., Sigona, N. (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
Asylum: principled hypocrisy
Matthew J Gibney, (2014), COMPAS Anthology
Liberal democratic states and responsibilities to refugees
Matthew J Gibney, (2014), In: Hathaway, J. (ed) Human Rights And Refugee Law
‘A very transcendental power’: denaturalisation and the liberalisation of citizenship in the United Kingdom
Matthew J Gibney, (2013), Political Studies, 61 (3), 637 - 655
Deportation, crime, and the changing character of membership in the United Kingdom
Matthew J Gibney, (2013), In: Franko Aas, K., Bosworth, M. (eds) The Borders of Punishment: Migration, Citizenship, and Social Exclusion
Should citizenship be conditional? The ethics of denationalization
Matthew J Gibney, (2013), The Journal of Politics, 75 (3), 646 - 658
Is deportation a form of forced migration?
Matthew J Gibney, (2013), Refugee Survey Quarterly, 32 (2), 116 - 129
The Deportation of Unaccompanied Minors from the EU: Family Tracing and Government Accountability in the European Return Platform for Unaccompanied Minors (ERPUM) Project
Martin Lemberg-Pedersen et al, (2013)
The Social, Political and Historical Contours of Deportation
Bridget Anderson et al, (2013)
The Social, Political and Historical Contours of Deportation
Matthew J Gibney et al, (2012)
Citizenship, deportation and the boundaries of belonging
Matthew J Gibney et al, (2011), Citizenship Studies, 15 (5), 547 - 563
Should citizenship be conditional? Denationalisation and liberal principles
Matthew J Gibney, (2011), RSC Working Paper Series, 75
Asylum Policy
Matthew J Gibney, (2011)
The rights of non-citizens to membership
Matthew J Gibney, (2011), In: Sawyer, C., Blitz, B. (eds) Statelessness in the European Union, 41 - 68
Special Issue: Boundaries of Belonging: Deportation and the Constitution and Contestation of Citizenship
Bridget Anderson et al, (2011), Citizenship Studies, 15 (5)
Introduction: Boundaries of belonging: deportation and the constitution and contestation of citizenship
Bridget Anderson et al, (2011), Citizenship Studies, 15 (5), 543 - 545
Citizenship, deportation and the boundaries of belonging
Bridget Anderson et al, (2011), Citizenship Studies, 15 (5), 547 - 563
Precarious residents: migration control, membership and the rights of non-citizens
Matthew J Gibney, (2009), UNDP Human Development Research Paper
Deportation
Matthew J Gibney, (2008), In: Cane, P., Conaghan, J. (eds) The New Oxford Companion to Law
Who should be included? Non-citizens, conflict and the constitution of the citizenry
Matthew J Gibney, (2008), In: Stewart, F. (ed) Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict: Understanding Group Violence in Multiethnic Societies
Special Issue: Government and Opposition
Eva-Lotta E Hedman and Matthew J Gibney (eds), (2008), Government and Opposition, 43 (2)
Introduction
Eva-Lotta E Hedman and Matthew J Gibney, (2008), Government and Opposition, 43 (2), 139 - 145
Asylum and the expansion of deportation in the United Kingdom
Matthew J Gibney, (2008), Government and Opposition, 43 (2), 146 - 167
Engineered regionalism, forced migration, and the distribution of refugees
Matthew J Gibney, (2007), In: Kneebone, S., Rawlings-Sanaei, F. (eds) New Regionalism and Asylum Seekers
Who should be included? Non-citizens, conflict and the constitution of the citizenry
Matthew J Gibney, (2006), CRISE Working Paper Series, 17
A thousand little Guantanamos: Western states and measures to prevent the arrival of refugees
Matthew J Gibney, (2006), In: Tunstall, K. E. (ed) Displacement, Asylum, Migration: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2004
Immigration and Asylum From 1900 to the Present
Matthew J Gibney and Randall Hansen (eds), (2005)
Asylum policy in the West: past trends, future possibilities
Matthew J Gibney and Randall Hansen, (2005), In: Borjas, G.J., Crisp, J. (eds) Poverty, International Migration and Asylum
The Ethics and Politics of Asylum: Liberal Democracy and the Response to Refugees
Matthew J Gibney, (2004)
Interpreting asylum: key questions for an improved regime
Matthew J Gibney, (2004), Tidsskriftet Politik, 3 (7)
Asylum policy in the West: past trends, future possibilities
Matthew J Gibney and Randall Hansen, (2003), 68
Deportation and the liberal state: the forcible return of asylum seekers and unlawful migrants in Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom
Matthew J Gibney and Randall Hansen, (2003), UNHCR New Issues in Refugee Research, 77
Introduction: Globalizing rights
Matthew J Gibney, (2003), In: Gibney M. J. (ed) Globalizing Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1999
Globalizing Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1999
Matthew J Gibney (ed), (2003)
The state of asylum: democratization, judicialisation and the evolution of refugee policy (In: The Refugee Convention 50 years on: Globalisation and International Law)
Matthew J Gibney, (2003)
Security and the ethics of asylum after 11 September
Matthew J Gibney, (2002), 13, 40 - 42
The state of asylum: democratisation, judicialisation and the evolution of refugee policy in Europe
Mathew J Gibney, (2001)
Outside the protection of the law: the situation of irregular migrants in Europe
Matthew J Gibney, (2000), RSC Working Paper Series, 6
Caring at a distance: (im)partiality, moral motivation and the ethics of representation – asylum and the principle of proximity
Matthew J Gibney , (2000), Ethics, Policy and Environment (formerly known as: Ethics, Place & Environment: A Journal of Philosophy & Geography), 3 (3), 313 - 317
Liberal democratic states and responsibilities to refugees
Matthew J Gibney, (1999), The American Political Science Review, 93 (1), 169 - 181

Key publications

Should citizenship be conditional? The ethics of denationalization
Matthew J Gibney, (2013), The Journal of Politics, 75 (3), 646 - 658

Publications

Refugees and justice between states
Matthew J Gibney, (2015), European Journal of Political Theory, 1 - 17
Beware states piercing holes into citizenship
Matthew Gibney (Audrey Macklin & Rainer Baubock, editors), (2015), The Return of Banishment: Do the New Denationalisation Policies Weaken Citizenship?
The Deprivation of Citizenship in the United Kingdom: A Brief History
Matthew Gibney, (2014), Journal of Immigration Asylum and Nationality Law, 28.4, 326 - 335
Political theory, ethics and forced migration
Matthew J Gibney, (2014), In: Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E., Loescher, G., Long, K., Sigona, N. (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
Asylum: principled hypocrisy
Matthew J Gibney, (2014), COMPAS Anthology

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Short Description

Teaching

Professor Matthew J Gibney teaches two courses for the MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies: 'Asylum and the Modern State' and 'Morality and Movement: Ethical Issues in Border Control'.

Matthew also lectures on the core course in 'Development Studies' for the MPhil in Development Studies.

Matthew currently supervises the following DPhil students: