Migrants, Civil Society and Sovereign States: Investigating an Ethical Hierarchy

Mervyn Frost

Political Studies, 1998, vol. 46, issue 5, 871-885

Abstract: Many actors in global politics profess both a commitment to basic human rights and to a system of sovereign democratic states. There are clear tensions between these commitments which become apparent when seeking ethical answers to the increasingly urgent problem of migrants who cross state boundaries in pursuit of better life chances elsewhere. Is it possible to achieve a coherence between a commitment to individual human rights and to sovereign democratic states? It is argued that a neo‐Hegelian constitutive theory of individuality provides a useful guide to our thinking about this matter.

Date: 1998
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