scholarly journals Migration controls in Italy and Hungary

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-412
Author(s):  
Umut Korkut ◽  
Andrea Terlizzi ◽  
Daniel Gyollai
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
The Public ◽  
Border States ◽  
Refugee Protection ◽  
Political Narratives ◽  
The One ◽  
The Eu

Abstract This article analyses the humanitarianism and securitisation nexus in effect to migration controls in Italy and Hungary. Noteworthy for our purposes is how the humanitarian discourse is undervalued as the EU border states emphasise either full securitisation or else securitisation as a condition for humanitarianism when it comes to border management and refugee protection measures. Our goal is to trace, on the one hand, how politicians conceptualise humanitarianism for the self and for the extension of the self; and, on the other, how they subscribe to humanitarianism for the other as long as the other follows what the self demands. Reflecting on the institutional and discursive nexus of humanitarianism and securitization in effect to migration controls, we trace political narratives of Europeanisation geared to affect the public. We refer to how securitisation challenges humanitarianism while undervaluing human rights for the other and foregrounding human rights for the self.

scholarly journals The European Union's policy on human rights and Chinese sovereignism: The case of Xinjiang

2021 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-86
Author(s):  
Dragan Trailovic
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
The Other ◽  
Individual Member ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Member States ◽  
The One ◽  
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region ◽  
Rights Issues ◽  
The Eu

The article explores the European Union's approach to human rights issues in China through the processes of bilateral and multilateral dialogue on human rights between the EU and the People's Republic of China, on the one hand. On the other hand, the paper deals with the analysis of the EU's human rights policy in the specific case of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, which is examined through normative and political activities of the EU, its institutions and individual member states. Besides, the paper examines China's response to the European Union's human rights approaches, in general, but also when it comes to the specific case of UAR Xinjiang. ?his is done through a review of China's discourse and behaviour within the EU-China Human Rights Dialogue framework, but also at the UN level and within the framework of bilateral relations with individual member states. The paper aims to show whether and how the characteristics of the EU's general approach to human rights in China are reflected in the individual case of Xinjiang. Particular attention shall be given to the differentiation of member states in terms of their approach to human rights issues in China, which is conditioned by the discrepancy between their political values, normative interests and ideational factors, on the one hand, and material factors and economic interests, on the other. Also, the paper aims to show the important features of the different views of the European Union and the Chinese state on the very role of Human Rights Dialogue, as well as their different understandings of the concept of human rights itself. The study concluded that the characteristics of the Union's general approach to human rights in China, as well as the different perceptions of human rights issues between China and the EU, were manifested in the same way in the case of UAR Xinjiang.

scholarly journals Companies’ human rights compliance: the EU integrated approach to support the duty to assess and address human rights related risks of business activities

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-71
Author(s):  
Marta Gatti
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
National Level ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The One ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Eu Support ◽  
The Eu

The purpose of this article is, on the one hand, to describe EU support of the adoption of a corporate social responsibility policy by EU undertakings, both within and outside the EU borders. On the other hand, this article will focus on the most recent developments in the field of human rights reporting at national level and, in particular, on the French commitment to implement mechanisms to prevent infringements on human rights across the supply chain.

Can Trade Liberalization Enhance Freedom of Expression? A WTO Perspective on Censorship

2012 ◽  
pp. 461-474
Author(s):  
Angelica Bonfanti
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
The Public ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
The One

Pursuant to their WTO commitments, Member States shall liberalize trade in goods, services and intellectual property rights, without any exceptions apart from those expressly provided by the covered agreements. Among them is the public morals exception. This paper aims to assess whether the implementation of the WTO commitments may have the effect of removing the filters imposed by some States through censorship, and whether the liberalization of international trade may contextually function as a means for enhancing freedom of expression. In so doing the paper examines how the public morals exception should be interpreted when censorship measures, on the one hand, and human rights protection, on the other, are at stake.

Citizenship by work?

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (183) ◽  
pp. 245-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Scherschel
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
The Other ◽  
Labor Market Participation ◽  
Citizenship Rights ◽  
Refugee Protection ◽  
Right To Work ◽  
Partial Opening ◽  
The One

The paper discusses current changes of the German labor market for certain groups of refugees. On the one hand, we can observe a partial opening of the labor market. Especially the economy welcomes the idea of opening the labor market for refugees. On the other hand, this policy establishes a perspective that puts a strong emphasis on economical benefits, even in the field of refugee protection. This policy is inconsistent with the idea of human rights, which state a right to work. Some researchers argue that the access to the labor market will be a chance to get citizenship rights. In contrast to this view, I argue that the focus on labor market participation leads to a classification of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ refugees. At the same time, the partial opening is a gateway for ‘activation policies’ with different sanctions intervening into the refugee protection system.

From Pariah Image to Partner and Back Again: The EU’s Complicated Relationship with Myanmar

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-369
Author(s):  
Felix Heiduk
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
The Other ◽  
Military Junta ◽  
Nelson Mandela ◽  
Aung San Suu Kyi ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Eu

To make sense of the EU’s rocky relationship with Myanmar, we need to consider how Myanmar’s political leadership is imagined in Europe. For decades, this image was bifurcated: on the one hand a military junta with its disdain for democracy and human rights. On the other hand, Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK), ‘our’ saint-like Burmese ‘Nelson Mandela’, detained but still fighting for democracy and human rights. As a result, Brussels implemented a tough sanction regime and essentially assigned Myanmar pariah status. When Suu Kyi re-joined the formal political process in 2012 and won the 2015 elections, Myanmar rapidly transitioned from pariah to partner. Fast forward to 2017 and relations between the EU and Myanmar had soured again because of the Rohingya crisis and Suu Kyi’s ‘deafening silence’ on the issue. The article argues that to understand this rollercoaster ride of EU–Myanmar relations one must turn to the imagery of Suu Kyi in Europe. The strong cognitive dissonances, created by the widening gap between the imagined ‘saint’ ASSK and the realpolitik ‘sinner’, have impacted on the EU’s relations with Myanmar and can help us make sense of the recent turbulences in the relationship.

scholarly journals Az EU pénzügyi érdekeinek védelme, fókuszban a korrupció elleni szervezete

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 8-13
Author(s):  
Zsuzsa Balla
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Hard Times ◽  
Public Money ◽  
The One ◽  
The Eu

Nowadays in these economical hard times it is very important to manage the public money efficiently. On the one hand it is a demand in the memberships countries and in the budget in the Europian Union.  On the other hand it is a requirement from the oridnary people too. Actually the Europian Union takes part in the struggle against corruption. In fact the Europian Union has a strategy of struggle against corruption and cheating.  The EU focuses on two fileds of strugggle against corruption, one of both is the budget of EU and the other is the public procurements. In this study I am dealing with the strategy of struggle against corruption, the main institutes and the main regulations.

The eighty-eighters: the arena of youth politics and the break-up of Yugoslavia

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ljubica Spaskovska
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Youth Politics ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
Break Up ◽  
The One ◽  
Shed Light

The last chapter looks at the ways the Youth League initially sought to reform and re-invent its role and mission and was later subsumed in and divided by the wider Yugoslav political debates and developments in the country. The proposed statute changes which came out of the public debate organised by the SSOJ in 1989 reflected both the gap between the Slovenian, on the one hand, and the Serbian, the Montenegrin and the Army youth leagues, on the other, but also shed light on a spectrum of shared visions and values which existed among the other branches. The chapter reflects upon the (lack of) consensus about the dilemma of how to modernise Yugoslav society and the sphere of institutional youth politics and culture and shows how by the end of the decade the consensus on change and reform and the discourse of ‘pluralism of self-managing interests’ was almost entirely replaced by a new discourse of human rights and liberal values which foreshadowed the ‘exit from socialism’.

The Application of Human Rights in African Caribbean and Pacific–European Union Development and Trade Partnership

2005 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 1381-1406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justice Nwobike
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
African Caribbean ◽  
Partnership Agreement ◽  
The One ◽  
Cooperation Relationship ◽  
The Eu

The Africa Caribbean Pacific–European Union (ACP-EU) Development and Trade Cooperation Relationship is currently regulated by the Cotonou Partnership Agreement. This agreement, which has been described as “the only one of its kind in the world” is based on the three pillars of politics, trade, and development between the EU and its Member States on the one hand and a group of developing countries on the other.

scholarly journals Between History and Universality: Understanding Identity in the Public Sphere

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-36
Author(s):  
Nisar Alungal Chungath
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Public ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The One

Identity is not a fixed and frozen prison-house for the self, but a liquid continuum, affected and shaped by the ‘outside’ or the world. The self, which is situated and which undergoes revisions and transformations, keeps identity as a frame within which it makes sense of things. On the one hand, there is a ‘history’ within which an identity is rooted and through which meaning-making is made possible, and on the other hand, every person aspires to be a ‘universal’ and recognition-worthy human being. Both inherent identity and inherent universality of the self should be considered in their interactions in the public sphere, which has been traditionally viewed as a space of discrete individualities. The ontological force of this argument aside, the paper demonstrates that reduction of an identity without crediting its aspiration for universality and consideration of universality without crediting the historical underpinnings of identity are both acts of violation. 

scholarly journals From Persecution to Management of Populations: Governmentality and the Common European Asylum System

Politik ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elspeth Guild
Keyword(s):  
Geneva Convention ◽  
The Other ◽  
Underlying Structure ◽  
European Union Law ◽  
Refugee Protection ◽  
Common European Asylum System ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One ◽  
The Eu

Refugee protection has long been an issue of great moral and legal importance among the countries in Eu- rope. European states sent representatives to participate in the drafting of the UN Convention relating to the status of refugees 1951 together with its 1967 protocol – the international commitment to refugee protection and were among the first signatories. They have also been strong supporters of the UN Agency established as guardians of the Geneva Convention – the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and participate as members of the UNHCR’s Executive Committee. However, these same states, when adopting legislation on refugee protection in European Union law appear Janus faced. On the one hand, statements of commitment to refugee protection are plentiful, on the other, mechanisms adopted aim to exclude the refugee even from being heard. In this article I will examine this contradiction using the concept of governmentality as developed by Michel Foucault. Deploying the three techniques of governmentality which Foucault developed most – sovereignty, discipline and biopolitics, I seek to dissect the asylum protection system the EU is developing and make visible the underlying structure of authority and power. 

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