Cosmopolitanism, Migration and Universal Human Rights

This book describes the potential and challenges of cosmopolitanism from a philosophical and historical point of view. Through the prism of cosmopolitanism, this book considers how the recent surge in migration is affecting our current reality, while also taking stock of the contemporary potential of cosmopolitan ideas. It considers and compares the significance of religion and culture for the wider societal acceptance or rejection of refugees. Moreover, the book examines the European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence on immigration policies, non-refoulement, humanitarian law and gender. It presents empirically based research of a quantitative, qualitative and comparative nature regarding the determinants of attitudes towards cosmopolitanism and more generally concerning public opinion on migration issues, and reflects on conceptions of and attitudes towards citizenship, while also imagining new forms of citizenship. This book serves as a comprehensive overview and resource for migration scholars from the social sciences and the humanities, as well as students and other stakeholders in the fields of migration and human rights.

Provides an interdisciplinary approach to the ideals, realities and challenges of cosmopolitanism Identifies key issues and controversies cosmopolitanism is currently facing Analyses foundations, significations and possibilities of cosmopolitanism

Auteur

Mogens Chrom Jacobsen received his Cand. Mag. in Philosophy and Political Science from Copenhagen University. His works include a Ph.D. thesis, Jean Bodin et le dilemme de la philosophie politique moderne, Copenhagen University Press 2000, and a postdoctoral thesis, Three Conceptions of Human Rights, NSU Press 2011 (second revised edition, A Different History of Human Rights, Les politiques 2017). He is specialized in political philosophy and the intellectual history of human rights.

Emnet Berhanu Gebre is a Researcher affiliated with the Maurice Hauriou Institute and an International Consultant specialized in human rights protection in the context of migration. Her Ph.D. thesis focused on the international protection of persons displaced by climate change. Her research publications notably pertain to protection issues raised by environmental displacement and climate change litigation at the international and national levels.

Drago upari -Ilji is an AssistantProfessor at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. He has published within the interdisciplinary fields of forced migration, refugees, ethnicity and environmental studies. His focus is mostly on various structural causes and drivers of migration, and experiences of post-migration processes, with a special interest in the Central and South-East European region

Contenu

Chapter 1: Cosmopolitanism and Politics: the Foreigner, the Migrant, the Refugee.- Chapter 2: May Bentham's Critique of Human Rights be Applied to a Contemporary Expression of them?.- Chapter 3: The Right to Travel between Cosmopolitanism and Imperial Ideology.- Chapter 4: The stronger the patriots the weaker the migrants: Cosmopolitan perspectives.- Chapter 5: The Neglected: The Consequences of the Syrian Refugee Crisis for the Palestinians in Lebanon.- Chapter 6: Visa Restrictions as an Obstacle for International Development.- Chapter 7: Migration and the Risk of Increasing 'Honour' Violence in Europe.- Chapter 8: Drawing Lines in the Sand: The ECtHR Scrutiny of Immigration Policies.- Chapter 9: Human Rights facing Terrorism: A Lose-Lose Situation? A problematic trend for the observance of the principle of non-refoulement.- Chapter 10: Human rights or Humanitarian Rights: in which Way does Migration impact Human Rights?.- Chapter 11: Democratic Values of Young Belarusians and their Attitudes towards the Right of Refugees.- Chapter 12: Public Opinion on Refugees and other Migrants in Croatia: Contesting Security vs Humanitarian Discourses.- Chapter 13: Migration, Human Rights and Nationalism: Implications Revealed through Slovenian Public Opinion.- Chapter 14: Multi-level citizenship in Eastern European Internal and External Policies.- Chapter 15: Migration and Postcommunist Citizenship in the EU.- Chapter 16: Citizenship, Open Borders and Human Rights.