scholarly journals Crisis of Solidarity? Changing Welfare and Migration Regimes in Sweden

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magnus Dahlstedt ◽  
Anders Neergaard
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
The Other ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
The Core ◽  
Swedish Model ◽  
European Crisis ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Migration Regimes

Europe is in crisis. In recent years, there has been a rise of xenophobic parties in a number of European countries. While arguing that there is indeed a European crisis, this article focuses on the Swedish take on the crisis. The aim is to contribute to the understanding of migration, from a Swedish vantage point. This orientation has particular significance since Sweden has traditionally been extolled as defending human rights and multiculturalism by opening its doors to refugees – the so-called Swedish exceptionalism. Reality, however, is quite different and former policies are contested, raising the question whether this signals the end of this exceptionalism. In Sweden, ongoing processes are transforming the core social fabric of what was previously known as the Swedish model. It is potentially a bellwether for the transformation of a previously inclusive democratic society into something quite different, in which ‘the Other’ increasingly plays a defining role.

scholarly journals The refugee regime and its weaknesses. Prospects for human rights and Kant’s ethic

Human Affairs ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Josef Koudelka
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
International Agreements ◽  
The Other ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Western Concept

AbstractWhen governments create refugee policies they consider several factors (security, economics, ethics, etc.). There are reasons why admitting refugees could have negative consequences (for example, security risks). On the other hand, if the recipient societies have ideals that stress the importance of helping other people, they should act according to their values. The aim of this article is to examine the concept of human dignity and show that European states should admit and help refugees because it is in accordance with their ethical values and the international agreements they have signed. This is important because when European countries hesitate to help refugees, they act not only contrary to their humane tradition, but they can harm them. The western concept of human dignity is one of the main values that stresses that each person is important—that they are equal and free.

Divergent Trends in Legal Recognition of Religious Entities in Europe: The Cases of Slovenia and Hungary

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 286-304
Author(s):  
Miran Lavrič ◽  
Sergej Flere
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
The Other ◽  
European Countries ◽  
European Convention ◽  
The Political ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
Legal Recognition ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
European Court

AbstractReligious dynamics in Europe, especially regarding religious pluralism, are largely affected by the characteristics of legal recognition of religious entities in individual countries. The implementation of the European Convention of Human Rights by the European Court of Human Rights clearly points to democratic pluralism as the essential principle in treating religious entities by the state. On the other hand, the situation in European countries is very complex and certain tendencies opposite to the European Convention of Human Rights directions, particularly in terms of privileging of traditional entities, are still deeply entrenched. Recent changes in Slovenia, where two essentially parody religions have been registered, and in Hungary, where registration and recognition of previously registered churches have been annulled, are considered. It is argued that the implementation of the liberal course set by the Council of Europe is (still) largely dependent on the political situation in individual countries.

A New Basis for Judicial Review in Iraq

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-37
Author(s):  
Oday Talal Mahmood
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Judicial Review ◽  
The Other ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Constitutional Democracy ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Law ◽  
Federal Supreme

Abstract Article 2 of the Iraqi Constitution of 2005, which states that Iraq is a modern Islamic constitutional democracy, contains a ‘repugnancy clause’, prohibiting enactment of any law contrary to Islam’s settled rulings, principles of democracy, and rights guaranteed in the Constitution. This clause allows the Constitutional Court to invalidate laws that violate the Constitution. Currently, the Iraqi Federal Supreme Court’s method for determining whether a particular law is repugnant to the Constitution and Islamic settled rulings as per Article 2 is inconsistent and arbitrary. Here the core question is: What is the best way to successfully implement the Iraqi Constitution’s Repugnancy Clause? We propose an approach focusing on maqāṣid, the classical Islamic concept meaning Sharīʿah’s intent, purpose, or objectives that will also fulfil the other purposes of Article 2 to ensure that the law is consistent with the principles of democracy and the principles of human rights.

scholarly journals Representing the Other: A Case for Interdisciplinary Clinical Legal Education: Example of the Human Rights and Migration Law Clinic

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 93-118
Author(s):  
Jovana Bogićević
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
The Other ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Migration Law

From January 2018 until late July of the same year, I had an opportunity to participate in the Human Rights and Migration Law Clinic (hereafter HRMLC or ’the Clinic’) in Torino, where I got a chance to experience working with the asylum seekers, interviewing them, writing their Legal Memo as well as preparing them for the hearing in front of the Territorial Commission (Italian First Board Commissions). An important aspect of the Clinic in question is the fact that it is conducted in cooperation with the Department of Anthropology and it involves anthropology students in the work with the asylum seekers. From the very beginning, it was apparent to me why they have opted for the involvement of anthropologists. I was surprised to see how much anthropological training in recognizing and being aware of Eurocentric (or any other kind of) presuppositions can be useful in recognizing and understanding cultural misunderstandings that happen on a daily basis in the asylum claiming process, as it is now in Italy. Even so, the idea for this paper became clear to me only when I attended the first meeting anthropology students had with their supervisor, Professor Beneduce. The feedback students gave to their professor and in turn, his observations made me inspired to write the paper that is before you.

The Rise of the Dutch Empire: the Broader Context of the Dutch Colonisation of Taiwan

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 365-375
Author(s):  
J. Bruce Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Other ◽  
European Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Colonial Empire ◽  
Dutch Empire ◽  
At Home

Unlike other European countries, Holland grew as perhaps the world’s first democracy with great wealth and relative egalitarianism, meritocracy rather than an aristocracy, and an absence of true monarchy. Holland’s great wealth also led to a worldwide colonial empire that competed with the other great European colonial empires. It was the Dutch who conquered Taiwan and brought the island under the first of six foreign colonial rulers. Like other colonial rulers around the world, the Dutch were racist, abused human rights, and indulged in slavery. Thus, although atypical at home, the Dutch in ruling their colonies, including Taiwan, were typical of colonial governments around the world.

Autonomy, Abortion and Pain Criteria

2011 ◽  
pp. 124-141
Author(s):  
Hasan Atilla Güngör
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Legal Personality ◽  
Scientific Debate ◽  
Abortion Debate ◽  
The Core ◽  
The One

Pro-life and pro-choice groups are the main actors in the current abortion debate. On the one hand, the defenders of women’s rights consider the issue as a matter of freedom and argue against bans on abortion practice. On the other hand, the fetal rights defenders are absolutely against abortion in any case and consider abortion a method of killing an innocent human being. Both sides use the scientific developments to influence public opinion. The core of this semi-scientific debate today depends on the question “When does human life begin?” Participants aspire to shape the law concerning abortion according to their answer to this question. Yet, this approach leads to deadlocks in theory and practice, because it is impossible to accept the legal personality of the fetus or to remove all the bans on abortion. However, it may be possible to find a solution within the legal system itself by using scientific knowledge, but without establishing it on a human “rights” base. This paper argues that using pain as a criterion may be a promising point of compromise.

scholarly journals Improving Living Conditions, Deepening Class Divisions: Hungarian Class Structure in International Comparison, 2002–2018

2021 ◽  
pp. 088832542110608
Author(s):  
Ákos Huszár ◽  
Katalin Füzér
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
The Other ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
Central Question ◽  
The Core ◽  
Hungarian Society ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Class Divisions

This article investigates the changing relationship of class and the living conditions of individuals in Hungary in comparison with other European countries. Our central question is to what extent class position determines the material living conditions of individuals in Hungary, how this relationship has changed, and how significant it is compared to other European countries. Our analysis is a direct test of the death-of-class thesis in one of the core fields of class analysis. Our results show that there has been a rapid and large-scale restructuring of Hungarian society after 2010, with two notable tendencies. The first is an overall improvement of material living conditions at all levels of the class structure, the other is the gradual solidification and polarisation of class structure.

scholarly journals Human Rights Education: Form, Content and Controversy

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Orend
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
North America ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Rights Education ◽  
The Core ◽  
Human Rights Movement ◽  
The Face ◽  
The One

Human rights education, in North America, is still developing and perhaps only in its adolescence. This is, on the one hand, quite shocking, given the foundational role such rights (supposedly) play in the core societal structures of the United States and Canada. On the other hand, the human rights movement has exploded world-wide since 1945 – rendering it in many ways a new normative world – and it is hard to think of other countries obviously doing better. To enable readers to draw comparative and intrinsic lessons, this paper examines both the form and content of human rights education in North America. The form section focuses on the modalities and availabilities of such education. The content section, by contrast, focuses on some of the "hot topics" and prominent dilemmas in contemporary North American human rights education. Emphasis is there placed on taking a principled, consistent stand in light of these latest controversies and challenges. In other words, and owing to the author’s nature as a philosopher, the content section will feature arguments highlighting the strength of a certain way of viewing and teaching human rights in the face of doubts about them and challenges to them.

Contingent Movements?

2021 ◽  
pp. 199-212
Author(s):  
Christopher Szabla
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Cold War ◽  
International Regime ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
Refugee Law ◽  
The Creation ◽  
International Refugee Law ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Migration Regimes

No single international organisation oversees and enforces global migrant rights or plans and facilitates migrant movement. Migrant rights are fragmented among, inter alia, human rights and labour law. Why does no clear, comprehensive international regime exist to integrate migrant law and provide oversight for all migrants as international refugee law and institutions do for refugees? Scholars have cited a 1951 US decision to withdraw support for a migration regime that involved communist participation. But the Cold War explanation sidesteps, among other things, the creation of an intergovernmental migration regime outside the communist world. Both the refugee and migration regimes subsequently paralleled one another’s development, but architectural differences ultimately rendered one more robust. This chapter shows how decisions that shaped the differences between these regimes were not entirely determined by the Cold War, while demonstrating how decisions related to another overarching historical force—decolonisation—resulted in the expression of these differences.

The Salvage of Ideas: Schumpeter and the Core Problems Still Confronting Economics

2003 ◽  
pp. 15-26
Author(s):  
P. Wynarczyk
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Core ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

Two aspects of Schumpeter' legacy are analyzed in the article. On the one hand, he can be viewed as the custodian of the neoclassical harvest supplementing to its stock of inherited knowledge. On the other hand, the innovative character of his works is emphasized that allows to consider him a proponent of hetherodoxy. It is stressed that Schumpeter's revolutionary challenge can lead to radical changes in modern economics.

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