Morris, L (2009) Civic Stratification and the Cosmopolitan Ideal. European Societies, 11 (4). pp. 603-624. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14616690902785695
Morris, L (2009) Civic Stratification and the Cosmopolitan Ideal. European Societies, 11 (4). pp. 603-624. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14616690902785695
Morris, L (2009) Civic Stratification and the Cosmopolitan Ideal. European Societies, 11 (4). pp. 603-624. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14616690902785695
Abstract
Beck (2006) has suggested that trans-national migration and the consolidation of human rights are features of an emergent cosmopolitan society in which we see a blurring of distinctions with respect to the rights of citizens and non-citizens. This paper argues that the presence of noncitizens on national territory has rather been accompanied by an expansion of distinctions in a system of civic stratification. It outlines the construction of asylum seekers as a ?target group? within this complex, and the withdrawal of welfare support from ?late claimers?. However, the paper also considers the limits placed on the erosion of rights through the human rights challenge that followed, in which the European Convention on Human Rights played a central role. Finally, the paper elaborates the interplay of formal entitlement and informal status in the process of change, and examines the implications of the whole account for cosmopolitan thinking
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | cosmopolitanism; civic stratification; human rights; asylum; welfare |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology and Criminology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 06 Dec 2011 13:20 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 18:21 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/1721 |