I am not a human rights specialist; actually, I am not even a lawyer, even though I maintain a fair understanding of international public law from my university years. I have been dealing with migration all my life; I have a family history embedded in migration; I am a migrant myself who married another migrant and both of us are still on the move. As a demographer and a policy analyst, I specialised on migration studies. And now, here I am, in this legal school, still uncapable of grasping the deepest why of managing frontiers as if from the heights of a fortress. Fortress Europe ...
I renounce. I renounced a long time ago. I see that my position appears to be extremist and I do not like to be underestimated as some kind of "naïve no-globalist" - which I am not. I keep silent, do my job, stick to my point of view. When I was a kid, I got this thing from Enlightenment that we were to be citizens of the world. I still take it.
According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (which is not technically binding), [...] "everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country" (art. 13.2). This clearly establishes a human right to e-migration and to return, but no corresponding right to im-migration. One can leave but not enter. States are not obliged to let people in.
Is this a legal/political loophole?
This is where so many people get caught in-between.
I renounce. I renounced a long time ago. I see that my position appears to be extremist and I do not like to be underestimated as some kind of "naïve no-globalist" - which I am not. I keep silent, do my job, stick to my point of view. When I was a kid, I got this thing from Enlightenment that we were to be citizens of the world. I still take it.
According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (which is not technically binding), [...] "everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country" (art. 13.2). This clearly establishes a human right to e-migration and to return, but no corresponding right to im-migration. One can leave but not enter. States are not obliged to let people in.
Is this a legal/political loophole?
This is where so many people get caught in-between.
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
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