Toward a Cosmopolitan Ethics of Mobility

Abstract

Human mobility, whatever its scale, is often controversial. Hence it carries with it the potential for politics. A core feature of mobility politics is the tension between the desire to maximise the social and economic benefits of migration and pressures to restrict movement. Transnational communities, global instability, advances in transportation and communication, and concepts of 'smart borders' and 'migration management' are just a few of the phenomena transforming the landscape of migration today. The tension between openness and restriction raises important questions about how different types of policy and politics come to life and influence mobility.Mobility & Politics invites original, theoretically and empirically informed studies for academic and policy-oriented debates. Authors examine issues such as refugees and displacement, migration and citizenship, security and cross-border movements, (post-)colonialism and mobility, and transnational movements and cosmopolitics.More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14800

Refugees and Knowledge Production

“…Among German-Jewish scholars, for instance, the theologian Paul Tillich reflected in one of his lectures on how exile in the USA had deprovincialized him and his thoughts. 26 Another well-known example is Hannah Arendt, whose extensive writings about exile, political justice, and human rights continue to influence the way we think about society and politics, or Palestinian intellectuals such as Edward Said and Munir Fasheh, 27 who have had a significant influence on global intellectual movements.…”

“…In her book Edgar and Brigitte, Rosemary Bodenheimer writes about her mother, Brigitte Bodenheimer: "she was being true to her nature and training: one did not complain about one's status as a woman or a Jew, nor did one draw on the vocabulary of victimization". 28 Another exiled lawyer, Otto Kirchheimer, was also very silent about his personal exile experiences, possibly channelling his personal experiences into an extensive chapter on the history and present situation of political asylum in his influential work Political Justice. 29 The aim of this book, however, is to go beyond simple comparisons between the experiences of historical and contemporary figures.…”

Migrantes marginalizadas y sus reivindicaciones de justicia global

“…Aunque el nacionalismo metodológico se presenta como un enfoque neutral, se basa en supuestos ideológicos ocultos vinculados a la soberanía territorial de los estados-nación y a la conceptualización de la sociedad como una unidad social que se superpone al territorio del estado-nación moderno (Beck y Sznaider 2006;Wimmer y Glick Schiller 2002). Desde el punto de vista del nacionalismo metodológico, la migración parece ser una desviación problemática de la norma (Glick Schiller 2009;Wimmer y Glick Schiller 2002;Sager 2018;Castles et al 2015).…”

“…Sin embargo, Stephan Castles (2010) ha sostenido que los actuales estudios sobre migración se enfrentan a varias deficiencias institucionalizadas que contribuyen a la legitimación de una política real de la migración sesgada: fragmentación disciplinaria y desconexión de la teoría social contemporánea de la globalización, una orientación y un enfoque político centrado en los países receptores, la separación de la migración forzada (p.ej., refugiados políticos, conflictos bélicos, ambientales) de la migración económica (migración laboral), y otros tipos de fragmentación temática o geográfica, así como un marco analítico conformado por el nacionalismo metodológico nunca cuestionado (Castles 2010). Alex Sager (2018), por su parte, sostiene que las teorías políticas (específicamente la tradición angloamericana) también han adoptado mayoritariamente este mismo sesgo cognitivo y, en consecuencia, el enfoque predominante se centra en la inmigración. Categorías como ciudadano, inmigrante, emigrante, turista o "fuga de cerebros" respectivamente están incrustadas en el paradigma del nacionalismo metodológico sin que tenga reflejo en las teorías políticas.…”

Student’s Territorial Mobility (Example of Yekaterinburg

“…Questions dealing with the multidimensionality of territorial identity and cosmopolitanism [6], as well as a new understanding of territorial boundaries [7] become a stimulus for the development of the idea of promoting people's capabilities: the territory becomes attractive for persons' mobility. It indicates that due to changes in the social, political, and cultural order in modern societies, mobility is taking on new forms [8], often initiated by students and young people.…”