Free movement : a human right or a citizenship right?

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dc.contributor.authorBAUBÖCK, Rainer
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-07T06:52:12Z
dc.date.available2025-04-07T06:52:12Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.descriptionPublished online: 24 March 2025en
dc.description.abstractShould people be free to move across international borders? Many political theorists defend free international movement as a universal human right, while some have emphasized that control over immigration is an essential feature of democratic self-determination. This chapter aims to transcend the antagonisms of these positions. It distinguishes between a human rights strategy that aims to replicate the conditions for free internal movement within states on a global scale and a democratic strategy that aims to expand reciprocity-based free movement channels for the citizens of particular countries. My conclusion is that the former is much more demanding because it presupposes a fundamental transformation of the international order, while the latter strategy can be pursued within that order and without challenging the power of states to control immigration. The chapter concludes nonetheless on a sceptical note regarding the prospects for free international movement in the current context of multiple global crises.en
dc.identifier.citationSahar AKHTAR (ed.), The routledge handbook of the ethics of immigration, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2025, Routledge handbooks in applied ethics, pp. 47-62en
dc.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003037309-6
dc.identifier.isbn9781003037309
dc.identifier.isbn9781032968681
dc.identifier.isbn9780367479282
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/78266
dc.language.isoenen
dc.orcid.putcode1814/80997:181719490
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dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.titleFree movement : a human right or a citizenship right?en
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