The Right to Have Rights
Citizenship, Humanity, and International Law
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 12 January 2012
- ISBN 9780199600823
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages192 pages
- Size 240x162x18 mm
- Weight 448 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Is it citizenship of a state or status as a human being that confers human rights on a person? If a person is stateless, how, and in what way, do human rights still apply to them? This book addresses these questions in the context of international human rights law and the notion of the 'right to have rights'.
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Writing in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the political theorist Hannah Arendt argued that the plight of stateless people in the inter-war period pointed to the existence of a 'right to have rights'. The right to have rights was the right to citizenship-to membership of a political community. Since then, and especially in recent years, theorists have continued to grapple with the meaning of the right to have rights. In the context of enduring statelessness, mass migration, people flows, and the contested nature of democratic politics, the question of the right to have rights remains of pressing concern for writers and advocates across the disciplines.
This book provides the first in-depth examination of the right to have rights in the context of the international protection of human rights. It explores two overarching questions. First, how do different and competing conceptions of the right to have rights shed light on right bearing in the contemporary context, and in particular on concepts and relationships central to the protection of human rights in public international law? Secondly, given these competing conceptions, how is the right to have rights to be understood in the context of public international law? In the course of the analysis, the author examines the significance and limits of nationality, citizenship, humanity and politics for right bearing, and argues that their complex interrelation points to how the right to have rights might be rearticulated for the purposes of international legal thought and practice.
This rigorous, scholarly and insightful book lingers long in the memory. It offers a necessary corrective to an international legal order that can lose itself in the inspirational language of legal texts and political statements.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Right to Have Rights as a 'Place in the World'
The Right to Have Rights as Nationality
The Right to Have Rights as Citizenship
The Right to Have Rights as Humanity
The Right to Have Rights as the Politics of Human Rights
Conclusion
