We deploy a novel and radical approach to vulnerability theory to investigate Scotland's response to asylum seekers’ vulnerability during the COVID-19 pandemic and test Scotland's self-affirmation as a hospitable country. Our ethical vulnerability analysis enhances Fineman's vulnerability analysis by denationalising the vulnerable subject and locating her within our ‘uneven globalised world’. We further enrich this fuller version of vulnerability analysis with insights from Levinas's and Derrida's radical vulnerability theory and ethics of hospitality. We demonstrate how our ethical vulnerability analysis enables us to subvert the hostile premise of migration laws and policies, and thus fundamentally redefine relationships between guests and hosts so that the host is compelled to respond to the Other's vulnerability. We argue that this hospitable impulse yields a generous and absolute commitment to progressive social welfare provision for asylum seekers, which brings Scotland closer to fulfilling its aspirations to be a hospitable host by welcoming the Other.

我们对脆弱性理论采用了一种新颖而激进的方法来调查苏格兰在 COVID-19 大流行期间对寻求庇护者脆弱性的反应，并检验苏格兰作为一个好客国家的自我肯定。我们的道德脆弱性分析通过将弱势主体去民族化并将她定位在我们“不平衡的全球化世界”中，增强了 Fineman 的脆弱性分析。我们利用列维纳斯和德里达激进的脆弱性理论和好客伦理的见解，进一步丰富了这个更完整的脆弱性分析版本。我们展示了我们的道德脆弱性分析如何使我们能够颠覆移民法律和政策的敌对前提，从而从根本上重新定义客人和主人之间的关系，使主人被迫对他人的脆弱性做出反应。