Migration and Human Rights – Exposing the Universality of Human Rights as a False Premise

Larking, EmmaMarianna KarakoulakiLaura SouthgateJacob Steiner2019-08-162019-08-16978-1-910814-42-0http://hdl.handle.net/1885/165125In the twenty-first century, the ability to migrate to some country other than one’s own, and to enjoy in that country legal status akin to that of a citizen, is a global marker of privilege. Such freedom is accorded only to a small class of people. For Bauman (1998, 9), international mobility is now the world’s ‘most powerful and most coveted stratifying factor’ (as cited in Castles 2005, 217).application/pdfen-AU© 2018http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Migration and Human Rights – Exposing the Universality of Human Rights as a False Premise20182019-04-14Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 license