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Human rights are cosmopolitan rights while migration belongs to history and politics. What confronts us now with full force is the contradiction between cosmopolitics and politics. Politics is essentially tied to frontiers. Frontiers preserve the world’s diversity and have a positive function, but they can be misused. I will show how cosmopolitical regulation of politics should give us the means to determine what we have to do, and what we have to resist nowadays.
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Zarka, Y.C. (2020). Cosmopolitanism and Politics: The Foreigner, the Migrant, the Refugee. In: Jacobsen, M., Berhanu Gebre, E., Župarić-Iljić, D. (eds) Cosmopolitanism, Migration and Universal Human Rights. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50645-2_1
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