Asylum, Welfare and the Cosmopolitan Ideal: A Sociology of Rights

ISBN-13: 9780415497732 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 172 str.

Lydia Morris

Opis

Asylum, Welfare and the Cosmopolitan Ideal: A Sociology of Rights pursues the premise that rights must be understood as part of a social process: as an object of negotiation and contestation, and so as a terrain for strategies of inclusion and exclusion. Engaging the debate about how ‘cosmopolitan’ principles and practices may be transforming national sovereignty, Lydia Morris explores this premise through a specific case study of legal activism, civil society mobilisation, and the process of judicial decision making. Prompted by government attempts to use destitution as a deterrent to control asylum numbers, Asylum, Welfare and the Cosmopolitan Ideal examines a successful challenge to this policy - showing how human rights can be used as a tool for radical change. Proposing a multi-layered 'model' for understanding rights - that incorporates political strategy, public policy, civil society mobilisation, judicial decision making, and public impact - it proposes a dynamic understanding of rights, in the recurrent encounter between principle and politics.

Spis treści

1. The Right to Have Rights: Fond Illusion or Credo for Our Times?  2. Asylum Immigration and the Art of Government  3. Welfare Asylum and the Politics of Judgment  4. Civil Society and Civil Repair  5. An Emergent Cosmopolitan Paradigm?  6. Civic Stratification and the Cosmopolitan Ideal  7. Cosmopolitanism Human Rights and Judgment  8. Conclusion: A Sociology of Rights

O autorze

Lydia Morris is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex and a member of the Human Rights Centre.