Human Rights for All Is Better than Citizenship Rights for Some

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The best way to avoid The calamities of the rightless for whom no law exists (Arendt) is not only to strengthen citizenship protections. That may well have the perverse consequences of, on the one hand, rendering citizenship ever harder to achieve, and on the other, relegating noncitizens to an increasingly rightless realm. We must do the harder, more basic work of defining and instantiating meaningful human rights protections for all people, regardless of status, or location. Focusing too specifically on the problem of deprivation of citizenship must not blind us ‘to the numerous small and not so small evils with which the road to hell is paved.’

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Kanstroom, D. (2018). Human Rights for All Is Better than Citizenship Rights for Some. In IMISCOE Research Series (pp. 207–213). Springer Science and Business Media B.V. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92719-0_39

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