By Leanne Weber
This ebook offers a brand new element of departure for pondering seriously and creatively approximately foreign borders and the perceived have to shield them, adopting an cutting edge ‘preferred future’ methodology.
The authors severely learn a number of ‘border domains’ together with legislation, citizenship, governance, morality, protection, financial system, tradition and civil society, which supply the capability and justification for modern border controls, and establish early symptoms that the dynamics of sovereignty and borders are being essentially reworked lower than stipulations of neoliberal globalization. The target is to find power pathways in the direction of the popular way forward for comfortable borders, and supply a origin for a innovative politics devoted to relocating past mere critique of the damage and inequity of border controls and in a position to envisaging a in a different way bordered world.
This booklet could be of substantial curiosity to scholars of border reports, migration, criminology, peacemaking, severe protection reports and IR generally.
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With regard to Article 3, the Court rejected Italy’s claim that Libya was a safe non-EU country. It noted that the mere ratification of international treaties by a non-EU country is not by itself a guarantee of compliance with human rights (Hirsi para. 128) and that ‘Italy cannot evade its own’ human rights responsibilities ‘by relying on its obligations arising out of bilateral agreements with Libya’ (Hirsi para. 129). The Court added that ‘the Italian authorities knew or should have known that, as irregular migrants’, the applicants ‘would be exposed in Libya to treatment in breach of the Convention and that they would not be given any kind of protection in that country’ (Hirsi para.
Strict border controls have also been justified in the name of cultural preservation. In Chapter 7, George Vasilev considers the role of territorial borders in preserving national cultures and challenges claims that contemporary migration poses a significant threat to cultural reproduction in stable, democratic societies. Next, Barbara Hudson analyses the limits and the promise of the Kantian notion of hospitality in pointing the way to a future of less-harmful borders. And finally, Vanessa Barker discusses the transformative role of civil society in challenging the legitimacy of territorial borders as markers of belonging and forging new transnational solidarities to reduce border-related harm.
