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The narrative that grounds the asylum policy of the United States portrays asylum seekers as passive objects of external forces. This narrative emerges from the complex interplay of exceptionality and victimization that characterizes the legal status and popular perception of the refugee. It is then read back onto the asylum seeker through a supereroga- tory asylum policy that is unable to recognize the moral demand made by the asylum seeker. The project this essay is drawn from seeks to challenge the policy of asylum as charity by interrogating alternative narratives grounded in the Hebrew Bible story of the Exodus and the Qu’ranic story of the Hijra. In these narratives, flight from oppression is portrayed as an act of moral agency, and the asylum seeker’s capacity as Other to make a moral demand on the Self emerges. Thus, I argue that an asylum policy informed by these alternative narratives needs must question its supererogatory assumptions. Le discours a la base de la politique d’asile des Etats-Unis represente les demandeurs d’asile comme des objets pas- sifs subissant des forces exterieures. Cette representation emerge de l’interaction complexe entre l’exception et la victimisation qui caracterise le statut legal et la perception populaire du refugie. Ce discours est renvoye au demandeur d’asile a travers une politique d’asile surerogatoire qui ne reconnait pas les exigences morales du demandeur d’asile. Cet article vise a remettre en question la politique de l’asile en tant que charite en faisant appel a des discours dif- ferents prenant leur source dans le recit biblique de l’Exode et dans le recit coranique de l’Hegire. Dans ces recits, la fuite de l’oppression est representee comme l’exercice d’une capacite morale, et emerge alors la capacite du demand- eur d’asile dans son alterite de faire une demande morale en tant que soi-meme. En consequence, on soutient qu’une politique d’asile basee sur ces alternatives doit remettre en question les presomptions surerogatoires.

Reimagining Asylum: Religious Narratives and the Moral Obligation to the Asylum Seeker