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The Stronger the Patriots—The Weaker the Migrants: Cosmopolitan Perspectives

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This chapter offers a discussion of the relation between patriotism and cosmopolitanism in a Swedish context. It takes its starting point in the refugee situation  of 2015, where Sweden together with Germany hosted Europe’s largest number of refugees in relation to its population. The cosmopolitan right of hospitality as defined by Kant used to have a relation to patriotism, while today the two concepts no longer seem to have that relation. Swedish intellectual Ellen Key shows a way to discuss this relation that opens for an alternative way to consider patriotism.

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Lettevall, R. (2020). The Stronger the Patriots—The Weaker the Migrants: Cosmopolitan Perspectives. 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_4

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