Imigracija u Europi danas: aparthejd ili građanska kohabitacija?
Immigration in Europe Today: Apartheid or Civil Cohabitation?
Author(s): Darko SuvinSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu
Keywords: immigration; apartheid; human and citizen rights; co-development
Summary/Abstract: The essay discusses the orientations for preventing the slide toward apartheid States. Beginning with the phenomenology of present mass displacements, it asks: are non-citizens people, and what are the limits of popular sovereignty? Is freedom possible if a good part of denizens is a partly free group? Five concatenated axioms are posed: that 1/ the right to hospitality (eventually, citizenship) is a central human right); 2/ each State – or analogous community – should give all its denizens the maximum possible of citizen rights; 3/ our value focus ought to be on immigrant policy and on integration; 4/ the status of “unfree labourers” refuses the principle of “one person, one vote”; 5/ “no taxation without representation.” The long-run alternative is wars and terrorism or civil cohabitation. This would include a foreign economical policy of “co-development”, and no participation in wars (except in a present aggression against Europe). If capitalism today condemns a growing majority of humans to psycho-physical misery and premature death, then we may be facing apartheid and global civil wars.
Journal: Politička Misao
- Issue Year: XLVIII/2011
- Issue No: 02
- Page Range: 159-185
- Page Count: 27
- Language: Croatian