International migration, border controls and human rights: Assessing the relevance of a right to mobility

The Impact of Development Aid on the International Migrations in the African, Caribbean, and Pacifi c Group of States

“…Mergo (2016) claims that migration contributes positively to the living conditions of family members remaining behind allowing them to increase their consumption expenditure. Pecoud and de Guchteneire (2006) discussed international migrations in the context of mobility. They are in favour of freedom of movement and argued that strict border controls threaten democracy and have negative impact on economy and society.…”

Human Rights, Migration, and Social Conflict

“…Finally, among postcitizenship proposals we find the right to mobility (Pécoud and De Guchteneire 2006) and ius migrandi (Vitale 2006). Pécoud and De Guchteneire propose that the right to mobility be recognized as a contemporary reinterpretation of Articles 13 and 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which establish the right to move from one country to another (the right to emigrate) and the right to seek asylum (the right to immigrate).…”

“…Both rights were formulated and interpreted in the context of the Holocaust and the Cold War and now need to be reinterpreted in the light of the socioeconomic and environmental consequences of globalization. In this context, the right to mobility also serves as a reinterpretation of the right to freely choose a job and enjoy a satisfactory standard of living, both of which are recognized in the International Human Rights Charter (Articles 23 and 25 of the UDHR; Articles 6,7,8,and 11 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; Pécoud and De Guchteneire 2006). 4 On the other hand, rather than reconceptualize citizenship Vitale proposes ius migrandi to justify the existence of a right to migrate that surpasses the nationalist bias inherent in the concept of citizenship, a concept he retains but also questions and reconfigures (Vitale 2006).…”

Ethical implications of co-benefits rationale within climate change mitigation strategy

“…9 Deontology is considered here to integrate all moral theories that establish and reflect upon what is right to do in the tradition of Kantian ethics. 10 The establishment of a right to an extended mobility [for example to migration] requires argumentation outside the Human rights moral and ethical framework (Pécoud & De Guchteneire 2006). 11 'One striking outcome of the introduction of free public transport in Hasselt was that the number of visits to patients in the hospitals was reported to increase enormously.…”