Title: Socio-economic rights, human security and survival migrants: Whose rights? Whose security?
Abstract: Although migration is 'the oldest action against poverty', the debate on international migration has escalated since the end of the Cold War. The dismantling of old barriers that prevented many nationals from leaving certain countries coincided with a parallel construction of barriers that restricted entry by non-citizens into the territory of other states. The end of the Cold War also marked a departure from an era where the phenomenon of forced migration was dominated by the exilic discourse that characterised refugee protection. Once the euphoria of the new era dissipated, states came to realise that migration remained a powerful and 'ineradicable' impulse that would expose the underbelly of globalisation and highlight extant social and economic inequality. Survival migration, that is migration as a survival strategy, would become a metaphor for the tainting of 'unprecedented human progress' with an undercurrent of 'unspeakable human misery', a metaphor for the globalisation of prosperity and poverty.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-14
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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