Freedom of the Border
Freedom of the Border There are few issues more contentious today than the nature and purpose of borders. Who are we to deny others access to our territory? Migration flows and the refugee crisis…
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Freedom of the Border
There are few issues more contentious today than the nature and purpose of borders. Who are we to deny others access to our territory? Migration flows and the refugee crisis have propelled the issue of borders into the centre of political debate and revealed our moral unease more clearly than ever.
Rather than thinking of borders as obstacles to freedom, he argues that borders make freedom possible. Is not freedom of movement a basic human right, one that should be defended above all others?In this book Paul Scheffer takes a different view. Democracy and redistributive justice are only possible with the regulation of access to territories and rights.
When liberals ignore an open society's need for borders, people with authoritarian inclinations will begin to erect them. In the context of Europe, the project of removing internal borders can therefore only be successful if
Freedom of the Border
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The Cunning of Freedom
Spirit of the Border
The Ends of Freedom
Soul of the Border
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