Cosmopolitan Justice and Immigration
A Critical Theory Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2397741 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Omid A Payrow Shabani (University of Guelph, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 87-98 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1368431006068760 |
| OpenAlex | W2093617412 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 15 |
The pressures of globalization have resulted in shrinking distances and increased contact among people, rendering state boundaries and jurisdiction insufficient to deal with claims of justice exclusively. This challenge requires that we move beyond the limits of statism in political theorizing and acquire a cosmopolitan approach. In this article, from a discourse theoretic perspective, I consider what cosmopolitan justice would entail for policy and law-making concerning immigration. It is argued that: (1) from a moral point of view we cannot consider the problem of migration solely from the perspective of the people of affluent countries and have to take into account the perspective of the refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants; (2) the growing interdependency of global economies gives rise to a moral obligation to assist the immigrants with special duties devolving upon the First World as the result of the history of colonization; and (3) the immigration law ought to be integrated into higher, or constitutional, law-making. In doing so, the discourse theoretic approach decouples national sovereignty (territorial integrity) and democratic polity, overcoming the problem of prioritization of geography over claims of membership
Global justice · Globalization · Immigration · Jurisdiction · Law and economics · Obligation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Refugee · Sociology · Sovereignty · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Political Philosophy and Ethics
Global Justice and Transnational Politics
Political Theory and International Relations
Liberal Nationalism
The Rights of Others
Cosmopolitanism and Sovereignty
Multicultural Citizenship
The European Nation-State
Moral Universalism and Global Economic Justice
Philosophical arguments
Democracy's discontent
Political theory and international relations
Spheres of Justice
Declarations of Independence
The Autonomy Argument for Liberal Nationalism
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2023 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |