The rights of others : aliens, residents, and citizens

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Title:

The rights of others : aliens, residents, and citizens

Author:

Benhabib, Seyla.

ISBN:

9780521538602

9780521831345

Personal Author:

Benhabib, Seyla.

Publication Information:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Physical Description:

xii, 251p. ; 23 cm.

Series:

John Robert Seeley lectures ; 5

Series Title:

John Robert Seeley lectures ; 5

Contents:

1. On hospitality : rereading Kant's cosmopolitan right -- 2. "The right to have rights : Hannah Arendt on the contradictions of the nation-state -- 3. The law of peoples, distributive justice, and migrations -- 4. Transformations of citizenship : the European Union -- 5. Democratic iterations : the local, the national, and the global -- Conclusion : cosmopolitan federalism.

Abstract:

"The Rights of Others examines the boundaries of political community by focusing on political membership - the principles and practices for incorporating aliens and strangers, immigrants and newcomers, refugees and asylum seekers, into existing polities. Boundaries define some as members, others as aliens. But when state sovereignty is becoming frayed, and national citizenship is unraveling, definitions of political membership become much less clear. In her Seeley Lectures, political theorist Seyla Benhabib makes a powerful plea, echoing Immanuel Kant, for moral universalism and cosmopolitan federalism. She advocates not open but porous boundaries, recognizing not only the admittance rights of refugees and asylum seekers, but also the regulatory rights of democracies. The Rights of Others is an intervention in contemporary political theory, of interest to students and specialists in politics, law, philosophy, and international relations."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Political rights.

Internationalism.

Citizenship.

Emigration and immigration.

Aliens -- Civil rights.

Refugees -- Civil rights.

Immigrants -- Civil rights.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam041/2004045665.html

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The Rights of Others examines the boundaries of political community by focusing on political membership - the principles and practices for incorporating aliens and strangers, immigrants and newcomers, refugees and asylum seekers into existing polities. Boundaries define some as members, others as aliens. But when state sovereignty is becoming frayed, and national citizenship is unravelling, definitions of political membership become much less clear. Indeed few issues in world politics today are more important, or more troubling. In her Seeley Lectures, the distinguished political theorist Seyla Benhabib makes a powerful plea, echoing Immanuel Kant, for moral universalism and cosmopolitan federalism. She advocates not open but porous boundaries, recognising both the admittance rights of refugees and asylum seekers, but also the regulatory rights of democracies. The Rights of Others is a major intervention in contemporary political theory, of interest to large numbers of students and specialists in politics, law, philosophy and international relations.