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The book's argument—the result of a research project entitled Human Rights and Global Citizenship: A Comparative Analysis of Exclusion Linked to Migration Flows in North America and the European Union—is that conflict involving migrants is the product of a systematic denial of universally recognized rights. Analysis of this causal relationship indicates how certain elements of current immigration policy in North America and Europe—such as the securitization of cooperation for development and borders, the use of temporary detention centers in the toughening of asylum policy, the criminalization of migration, and the social marginalization resulting from discrimination against immigrants—generate problems for receiving societies. The logical conclusion of this argument is that if these tendencies were reversed and the human rights of migrants recognized and respected, the conflicts and violence with potentially global implications would be reduced. The recognition of human rights would help to prevent or address these concerns. The resulting indications and conclusions therefore serve as the basis for the formulation of a normative proposal for a decolonized global justice that lays the foundations for respect for the human rights of mobility.

DOI: 10.1057/9781137097552_1

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