Immigration as A Human Right
2007 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Magister), 20 points / 30 hp
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
The study argues that implicit in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the principle of immigration as human rights is supported by principle of positive freedom, negative freedom, and equal autonomy. The study endorses a liberal egalitarian perspective by claiming that human right to immigrate promotes equal autonomy. The study also investigates why the principle of immigration as a human right has been dismissed by doctrines within Liberalism. It argues that a state lacks a legitimacy to employ a principle of national self-determination against the immigration issue. Instead, a state has a moral obligation to the protection of a human right to immigrate; it also has a duty to provide equal social rights to the immigrants in compared with those of the citizens.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Centrum för tillämpad etik , 2007. , p. 63
Keywords [en]
a human right to immigrate, Liberal Egalitarianism, Liberal Nationalism, Utilitarianism, Libertarianism, positive freedom, negative freedom, equal autonomy, national self-determination
National Category
Philosophy
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-8204ISRN: LIU-CTE-AE-EX--06/15--SEOAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-8204DiVA, id: diva2:23040
Presentation
2006-06-15, conference room in center of applied ethics, ISK, Linköping, Linköping, 10:00
Uppsok
humaniora/teologi
Supervisors
Examiners
2007-02-142007-02-14