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Migration and Theories of Justice: a Critical Reappraisal
No full textFor decades, the theoretical discussion on justice has been unsuccessfully looking for convincing solutions to the moral problems connected to the persistence of (porous) borders in international politics. These problems are especially striking when one looks at the mismatch between the claims of international migrants and the arguments deployed by several contemporary liberal states in order to justify the rejection of those claims. Critically analysing how the most influential accounts of domestic and global justice deal with the issue of migration, the essay reveals the main weaknesses of the two approaches. It is argued that while theories of justice focusing on domestic justice seem unable to transcend the dichotomous logic of inclusion and exclusion because of their partial and biased interpretation of the phenomenon of migration, theories of global justice offer a multidimensional and well-balanced reading of international migration, but the solutions they propose do not rely on an accurate reading of the impact of global political dynamics on the management of international migration. In order to overcome the weaknesses of both approaches, a new research agenda is needed
A Refutation of Democratic Peace Assumptions in Liberal Projects for Global Order
No full textFrom Kant’s plan for perpetual peace to Rawls’s proposal of a law of peoples, liberal projects for world order assume the homogeneity of states’ regimes as a determinant factor for bringing about peace and moral progress. Particularly, at the foundations of Rawlsian internationalism is the ‘fact’ of democratic peace, considered to be a sound and immutable feature of the international system. This article questions this oversimplified reading of Michael Doyle’s hypothesis about the apparent existence of a ‘separate peace’ among democratic states. It argues that liberal projects for global order should consider the ‘separate peace’ merely as a working hypothesis and they should address also the problematic aspects related to it, namely the unnecessary aggressiveness that democratic states show towards non-democracies and the coercive – and possibly illiberal – nature of the Society of Peoples
Post-Pandemic Frontiers of Global Justice. A Preliminary Analysis
No full textThe socio-political effects of the current pandemic crisis tend to reproduce and reinforce inequalities within societies and at the global level. Moreover, the ongoing situation has provided the occasion for increasing awareness on the risks associated with the current ecological crisis. This article presents and discusses the challenges that the pandemic crisis poses to theories of global justice, relying on Martha Nussbaum’s work on the frontiers of justice and expanding its scope to include a fourth frontier. Within the context of growing inequalities in the individuals’ endowment of resources and opportunities and of stricter restrictions on freedoms, a liberal conception of global justice should focus on conceptualizing rights and duties of justice from a multidimensional perspective. The increase in inequalities in a global scenario characterised by vulnerability and interdependence requires comprehensive solutions, both redistributive (towards people and peoples) and regenerative (towards the ecosystem)
«Se l’è cercata!» Violenza di genere, colpevolizzazione della vittima e ingiustizia epistemica
No full textLa colpevolizzazione della vittima (victim blaming) è un atteggiamento diffuso nelle nostre società rispetto ai casi di violenza di genere: a livello investigativo, processuale e massmediatico si può facilmente osservare la radicata tendenza a cercare giustificazioni o attenuanti agli episodi di violenza verso le donne, frutto della cultura patriarcale dominante e di un sistema di potere squilibrato che quantomeno ostacola un cambiamento culturale di ampia portata in senso emancipatorio e supportivo della sostanziale parità di genere. Il problema della colpevolizzazione della vittima, che finora è stato analizzato perlopiù in ricerche di carattere criminologico e di psicologia sociale e più recentemente anche da studi di filosofia del diritto e filosofia del linguaggio, offre importanti spunti anche per una riflessione filosofico-politica sulle dinamiche di esclusione sociale e dominazione che sottendono le pratiche di violenza di genere nelle nostre società
Recensione: Seyla Benhabib, Exile, Statelessness, and Migration. Playing Chess with History from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin, Princeton-Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2018, pp. 196.
No full textBetween New Walls and Open Borders. Review of: David Miller, Strangers in our Midst, Cambridge-London, Harvard University Press, 2016, pp. 218
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