The Global Migration Crisis: Challenges to States and Human Rights

1995 ◽  
Vol 110 (4) ◽  
pp. 651
Author(s):  
Yossi Shain ◽  
Myron Weiner
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
Migration Crisis

‘Better Than A Great Many Good Works’: Jenny Erpenbeck’s Go, Went, Gone and the Primacy of Attention in Human Rights Practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 406-421
Author(s):  
Brian Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
General Public ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
Good Works ◽  
Human Rights Practice ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Better Than

Abstract Beginning with Simone Weil’s writing on the subject of attention, this article reflects on the place of attention in contemporary human rights practice—specifically in relation to the challenges posed by the multiple patterns of migration that have so defined our era. Through the lens of Jenny Erpenbeck’s remarkable novel, Go, Went, Gone, the article explores what attentiveness may mean today with regard to research and advocacy concerning migration issues. The article also asks how we secure and maintain the interest of the general public in the so-called global migration ‘crisis’ at a historical moment characterized by mass distraction?

The Global Migration Crisis: Challenge to States and to Human Rights.

1996 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 569
Author(s):  
Demetrois G. Papademetriou ◽  
Myron Weiner
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
Migration Crisis

scholarly journals The nordic saga of citizenship

2020 ◽  
pp. 108-119
Author(s):  
Sofinska Iryna
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Nordic Countries ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
Dual Nationality ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Gradual Transformation ◽  
Very High

The modern concept of citizenship is undergoing a gradual transformation under the influence of significant geopolitical changes, permanent civilizational, globalization, and migration challenges. No longer is citizenship an exclusive legal sign indicating that an individual is a part (subject) of a particular State because a meaningful and understandable paradigm is changing. An individual as a citizen becomes increasingly essential, valuable for every democratic State. The country of his/her birth might not be the same as the country of origin or country of citizenship.He/she can claim rights or privileges inside and outside the country (extra-territorial) in a reciprocal way. As the primary motivation of this article is to explore the peculiarities of citizenship in Nordic countries after the global migration crisis in Europe during 2015–2016. All of them are shortlisted in few important indexes globally in 2017 (World Happiness Index, Visa Restriction Index, etc.). All of them have a very high GDP nominal per capita, which demonstrates a practical application of homo-centric concept, guaranteeing human rights, prosperity, and stability. The article highlights the achievements of those scholars (R. Bellamy, G.-R. De Groot, Ch. Joppke, W. Kymlicka, L. Orgad, P. Spiro, P. Shuck, P. Veil and others) who earlier explored the value paradigm of citizenship and the legal identity of an individual in the context of globalization, migration, and human rights. Relevant analytical and statistical expert reports and forecasts provide clear guidance for further modernization of intelligent segmentation of citizenship models and elements. The trajectory of a traditional vision of citizenship in Nordic countries (Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway, and Sweden) changed from 'undeserved right' to 'earned privilege'. This transformation can be viewed in gender-biased nationality laws, dual nationality clauses, specific features of filiation, preconditions of naturalization, requirements of citizenship termination, etc.

Natives and Newcomers

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Illingworth ◽  
Wendy E. Parmet
Keyword(s):  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Global Response ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Shared Humanity ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Norm Change

Using the 2015 Ebola epidemic and the global migrant crisis as examples, this chapter suggests that following a period of norm change, there is reason to be optimistic about the potential for solidarity between newcomers and natives for the sake of health. In health our shared humanity and vulnerability are evident. The Ebola epidemic in 2014 illustrates both how a slow global response to the disease resulted in the deaths of over 11,000 people and how a willingness on the part of nations and individuals to act in solidarity with the victims of Ebola brought an end to the epidemic. Responses to the recent global migration crisis, including a mix of public and private sponsorship of refugees in Canada, are also examined in this chapter. This chapter suggests policy recommendations to ensure that newcomers have their health needs met and indicates that equal access to health care for newcomers and natives is critical and will be facilitated by cultural competency and nonexclusionary health policy.

scholarly journals Introduction to Symposium on Framing Global Migration Law – Part II

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 134-135
Author(s):  
Jaya Ramji-Nogales ◽  
Peter J. Spiro
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Human Movement ◽  
Control Approach ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
Economic Migration ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Migration Law

Part I of this symposium on framing global migration law introduced broad conceptual parameters of a new field, looking back to its international law roots and forward to a new orientation beyond the strictures of refugee law. Part II looks to situate global migration law along a range of theoretical dimensions. Jacqueline Bhabha establishes the continuities of human movement in a historical context, modern and premodern. Far from representing a radical departure, the current migration “crisis” is consistent with massive migrations over the ages. Tendayi Achiume considers migration through the lens of colonization and decolonization. Out-migration from Europe was a core economic element of the colonization project; Achiume suggests that contemporary migration from former dependencies to metropolitan powers will correct co-dependencies that continue to advantage postcolonial powers. Focusing Achiume's lens on the problem of human trafficking, Janie Chuang complicates the binary depictions of economic migration that underpin contemporary international law. She suggests that global migration law's grounding in a migrant-centered perspective could help state actors to understand the structural causes of modern-day exploitation, enabling a shift from a crime control approach to a human mobility paradigm.

scholarly journals MIGRANTS IN DETENTION: APPROACH OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

TEME ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 957
Author(s):  
Veljko Turanjanin ◽  
Snežana Soković
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Main Part ◽  
European Convention ◽  
European Court ◽  
Fundamental Freedoms ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
The One ◽  
Article 5

The Mediterranean migrant crisis is not calming down and in the last six decades the nature and character of these migrations has changed. The authors deal with the one of the aspects of their position – detention. This work is divided into several parts. In the first part, the authors explore the problem of the migration crisis. After that, they explain in detail an Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. The main part of this work is devoted to the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights related to the migrant’s detention.

scholarly journals From Enforced Closure to Regulated Mobility: The Need for a Paradigm Shift in Migration Policies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
François Crépeau
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Canadian Association ◽  
And Migration

Editor’s note: the following text is an edited version of the keynote address delivered on May 13, 2015, at the 8th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS) at Ryerson University, Toronto. Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank the organisers, and in particular my colleague and friend Prof. Idil Atak, for inviting me to this exchange with you. It is a rare occasion and I’m very grateful for the opportunity. I was asked to share with you a number of ideas coming from my experience as UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, especially on the relationship between criminalisation, precariousness, and human rights protection. The thoughts I’m sharing with you are mostly based on my knowledge of international human rights and refugee law, my country visits – Albania, Tunisia, Turkey, Italy, Greece, the European Union (Brussels), Qatar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Malta – and my various thematic reports on the detention of migrants, climate change and migration, the management of the external borders of the European Union, Global Migration Governance, the labour exploitation of migrants, and the human rights of migrants in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda. They are also inspired by the most recent policy announcements made by the European Union, including the European Migration Agenda announced today in Brussels.

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