Can Human Rights and National Sovereignty Coexist? (Global Perspectives on Immigration and Multiculturalisation) - Hardcover

 
9780367609658: Can Human Rights and National Sovereignty Coexist? (Global Perspectives on Immigration and Multiculturalisation)

Synopsis

Looking at two of the key paradigms of the post-Cold War era–national sovereignty, and human rights – this book examines the possibilities for their reconciliation from a global perspective.

The real or imagined fear of a flood of immigrants has caused and fuelled the surge of an amalgam of populist political forces, anti-immigrant movements, and exclusionist nationalism in many developed countries. In the last decade, we have witnessed the emergence of two phenomena in the political and legal spheres. On the one hand, there are liberal globalists asking for respect and the protection of the basic human rights of migrants and asylum seekers and arguing for their civic and social integration into host societies. On the other hand, there are growing calls for a tougher stance on immigration, and powerful populist politicians and governments have emerged in many developed countries. How can the idea of universal human rights survive exclusionist nationalism that uses a populist, unscrupulous approach to its advantage? The contributors to this book explore the meaning of, and possible solutions to, this dilemma using a wide range of approaches and seek appropriate ways of dealing with these normative predicaments shared by many developed societies.

Scholars and students of human rights, migration, nationalism and multiculturalism will find this a very valuable resource.

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About the Author

Tetsu Sakurai is Professor of Contemporary Jurisprudence in the Graduate School of Intercultural Studies at Kobe University, Japan.

Mauro Zamboni is Professor in Legal Theory at the Faculty of Law, Stockholm University, Sweden.

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