Globalization and the Paradox of Participation
The Chinese Case
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6189544 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dorothy J Solinger (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 173-196 |
| Publication date | 2001-07-28 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Governance A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1075-2846 • E-ISSN: 1942-6720 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/19426720-00702006 |
| OpenAlex | W292529739 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 6 |
n important current in the study of globalization1 and its impacts holds that the global spread of economic liberalism and the con ?. \. cept of human rights have eventuated in new notions of citizen ship. In one view, what has been termed a postnational citizenship, granted the basis of personhood, has increasingly offered immi grants the rights and privileges once granted only to nationals. Whether the mechanism at work is ideational, as by changes in the institutional and discursive order of rights at the global level,2 or ideational-cum material, as in the words of another author, through the dissemination of notions of social justice and human rights, the analysis in these works claims to see a new extension of rights to individuals who are not full members of the societies in which they reside.3 In a similar formulation, the proliferation of international human rights law that recognizes the individual as an object of rights regard less of national affiliations or associations with a territorially defined people has in recent years meant that states [have] had to take account of persons qua persons as opposed to limiting their responsibilities to their own citizens.4 And yet, as I demonstrate in this article, globaliza tion has probably done as much to minimize citizenship and member ship rights and privileges to individuals as to extend it. Specifically, I propose that a political paradox resides at the core of globalization, which can thus be seen as a two-level, double-edged process: State-level efforts to become accepted within the dominant, one might say hegemonic, global economic society have at the same time worked to exclude large numbers of immigrants and would-be citizens from genuine membership in the national community. I illustrate my analysis by referring to France and Mexico, but focus on the case of China. As these three countries have prepared to join the global economy and become members of supranational economic organizations, unem ployment rates have risen, directly affecting both residents and migrants. France has joined the European Monetary System, Mexico has become
Citizenship · Globalization · Human rights · International human rights law · International law · Law and economics · Liberalism · Personhood · Political science · Politics · Sociology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Law
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2024 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |