Rights of Others - Aliens, Residents and Citizens

Informationen zum Autor Seyla Benhabib is one of the leading political theorists in the world today and Eugene Meyer Professor at Yale University. Zusammenfassung 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 acceptable solutions do nonetheless exist. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. On hospitality: rereading Kant's cosmopolitan doctrine; 2. 'The right to have rights': Hannah Arendt and the contradictions of the nation-state; 3. The law of peoples, distributive justice and migrations; 4. Transformations of citizenship: the case of the European Union; 5. Democratic iterations: the local, the national and the global; Conclusion; References; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Seyla Benhabib
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 25.11.2004
• EAN: 9780521538602
• ISBN: 978-0-521-53860-2
• Abmessung: 140 mm x 216 mm x 15 mm
• Serien: The Seeley Lectures; The Seeley Lectures
• Themen: Sachbuch; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung