https://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/jwi/2014/05/10/immigration-is-a-human-right/ University of Edinburgh Fri, 01 May 2015 14:45:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/jwi/2014/05/10/immigration-is-a-human-right/#comment-9806 Thu, 22 May 2014 10:53:33 +0000 http://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/jwi/?p=300#comment-9806 Unilateral restriction of movement of person globally is perhaps a violation of human right; and in this era of globalization with the free movement of services, finance, information, human restriction is the crucial barrier to a globalised world order. It is a basis for a new theory of justice on claims of misrecognition. To restrict people from moving means that such persons are not recognized as fully autonomous persons who have a right to self-determination. Today the visa is brandished as a instrument of power and domination; as a tool of oppression. The policies that feed border restrictions are fed by the theories of state sovereignty which try to place the interest of state over that of the individual whereas the French Revolution and other political and social struggles against racism, sexism, economic discrimination etc are all fighting for the converse which is the sovereignty of the individual person. It may be true, as it is argued in many quarters that the total emancipation of the individual, part of which is the liberalization of immigration, will be the true route to ending global poverty, oppression and alienation in the world. Individuals everywhere have a universal right to free movement: this is the next great step for social revivalism and true global integration.

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