The rights of others : aliens, residents and citizens / Seyla Benhabib.

The Rights of Others explores the tension between universal principles of human rights and the self-determination claims of sovereign states as they affect the claims of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants. Few issues in world politics today are more important, or more troubling, but morally acc...

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Main Author: Benhabib, Seyla
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
©1994
Series:John Robert Seeley lectures ; 5.
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Table of Contents:
  • On hospitality : rereading Kant's cosmopolitan right
  • "The right to have rights" : Hannah Arendt on the contradictions of the nation-state
  • The law of peoples, distributive justice, and migrations
  • Transformations of citizenship : the European Union
  • Democratic iterations : the local, the national, and the global
  • Conclusion : Cosmopolitan federalism.