The Challenge of Migration: Is Liberalism the Problem?
Abstract: The challenge of developing humane migration and refugee politics in Westernstates is far from resolved. This ongoing failure is typically attributed to the increased influence of right-wing populism and neo-fascism in Western migration politics. In this article I discuss a more radical explanation: Christoph Menke argues that political liberalism andits framing of migration as an issue of subjective human rights is the deeper root of the problem. While the merit of Menke's approach is its criticism of subjectification through individual rights that blocks politics, I show that his Critique of Rights may lead to an anti-pluralist and paternalistic 'radical republicanism'. To react to this problem, I propose a 'reflective liberalism' that allows to criticise subjectification without abandoning the form of individual rights. This position, which I develop through a discussion of Foucault's concept of 'freedom as critique', shows that in addition to protecting minorities such as migra
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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Postprint
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie - Beihefte ; 167 (2021) 167 ; 173-192
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Politik
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Mannheim
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SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
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2021
- Creator
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Schubert, Karsten
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-72891-4
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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- Schubert, Karsten
- SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
Time of origin
- 2021
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