Abstract
What does the growing tide of displaced persons today teach us about the ongoing paradoxes of human rights regimes, which rely on the particular sovereignty of nation-states for their constitution and application but are framed and normatively justified as universal? Working with Arendt’s defense of ‘the right to have rights’ in response to the problem of statelessness which is the practical lynchpin of these historical and theoretical tensions, I specify that and why any person on earth, regardless of their legal status as a national or resident or non-resident alien, can legitimately expect two things from the political community in which they reside: hospitality and membership.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Introduction to the Special Issue on Philip Pettit’s The Robust Demands of the Good
- The Value of Robustness: Promotion or Protection?
- The Robust Demands of the Right
- The Robust Demands of Oppression Problematizing Pettit’s Account of Attachments
- Robust Harms
- Pettit on Love and Its Value: A Critical Assessment
- Defending The Robust Demands of the Good
- Articles
- Arendt and the Legitimate Expectation for Hospitality and Membership Today
- The Difference Principle, Capitalism, and Property-Owning Democracy