Free Movement and the World Order

Juss, Satvinder

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“…In both legal and material terms, then, the home state is very restricted in guaranteeing the safety of its traveling citizens (Salter 2003:4). Exacerbating this is the fact that a considerable body of law (international and domestic), as well as a long historical tradition in democratic states, commits governments to guarantee the free movement of their citizens (see Hannum 1987; Juss 2004). However, the home state is not—and cannot be—indifferent to the fate of its traveling citizens: after all, because the great majority of travelers are away for only a short time, their legal, emotional, material, and ideational connections with the home state remain very strong.…”

Section: The Travel Dilemma and Travel Warningsmentioning

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The Responsibility to Responsibilize: Foreign Offices and the Issuing of Travel Warnings

Löwenheim

2007

Int Political Sociology

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What are the connections between personal risk‐management and governmental responsibility toward citizens? This paper argues that governments in neoliberal societies increasingly acknowledge a responsibility to help citizens make “informed choices” in order to reduce or avoid risk. A key feature within this framework is the issuing of official governmental advice to the citizens. But such advice does not merely carry information that citizens are free to accept or decline. Rather, it also consists of a conscious effort on part of governments to construct individuals as calculating, prudent, and rational persons that know how to manage risk (to “responsibilize” them). Below I examine the practice of governmental advice as an effort of responsibilization in the case of travel warnings issued by foreign offices to international travelers.

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Section: The Travel Dilemma and Travel Warningsmentioning

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The Responsibility to Responsibilize: Foreign Offices and the Issuing of Travel Warnings

Löwenheim

2007

Int Political Sociology

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“…Juss (2004) has made the case that freedom of movement between territories is a fundamental human right, increasingly central to the realisation of other human aspirations, and could be incorporated into positive international law through an incremental process concentrating initially on employmentrelated mobility. Although engaged through international mechanisms in some of the migration management activities mentioned above, governments in the affluent world have overwhelmingly opted for restrictive measures, mobilising all the technologies of sovereignty at their disposal to defend their borders.…”

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“…For those who strive to find a balance between freedom of movement and social stability within a transitional and inherently unstable global environment, the answer will be more elusive. Juss (2004) argues that legislation in favour of free movement rights is actually required in order to achieve global stability, but resiles from advocating a radical open borders agenda, in favour of an incremental achievement of positive rights within the existing system of international law. Sparrow (2003) provides a cogent discussion of the practical and philosophical difficulties from a position which is supportive of, but ultimately rejects, an open borders philosophy in favour of efforts to redress the gross inequalities in life opportunities that fuel mass population movements.…”

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“…The inability of states to maintain the huge costs of border protection (as detailed in the chapters by Danner and Wonders) could conceivably play a part in bringing about change. Juss (2004), for example, identifies the enormous costs of migration control as one argument for the abandonment of attempts to constrain mobility, advocating instead a 'creative accommodation' of new patterns of movement. Earlier in this discussion we drew attention to similarities between the criminalisation of the mobile poor of pre-industrial Britain and the present day reaction to unauthorised border crossing.…”

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“…Perhaps the full resolution of the contemporary 'problem' of global mobility awaits the emergence of a truly global civil society, combining the 'fluid' society alluded to by Urry (2000b), which is constituted by individual mobility and transient membership, and the 'globalisation of labour' foreseen by Sassen (1996). In fact, it could be argued (for example, see Juss 2004), that the relaxation of migration restrictions is a necessary condition for the production of a more stable world order. This is not to suggest that a society which has accommodated mobility is necessarily a just one, and opportunities for movement, and the degree of choice over individual mobility are likely to continue to be unevenly distributed.…”

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Free Movement and the World Order

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The Responsibility to Responsibilize: Foreign Offices and the Issuing of Travel Warnings

The Responsibility to Responsibilize: Foreign Offices and the Issuing of Travel Warnings

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The Shifting Frontiers of Migration Control

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