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The Concept of the “Other”: Migration, Human Rights, and Formalized Identity Building Processes in Europe

The Concept of the “Other”: Migration, Human Rights, and Formalized Identity Building Processes in Europe

Daniele Ruggiu
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781466608917|ISBN10: 1466608919|EISBN13: 9781466608924
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0891-7.ch014
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Ruggiu, Daniele. "The Concept of the “Other”: Migration, Human Rights, and Formalized Identity Building Processes in Europe." Human Rights and Risks in the Digital Era: Globalization and the Effects of Information Technologies, edited by Christina M. Akrivopoulou and Nicolaos Garipidis, IGI Global, 2012, pp. 222-239. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0891-7.ch014

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Ruggiu, D. (2012). The Concept of the “Other”: Migration, Human Rights, and Formalized Identity Building Processes in Europe. In C. Akrivopoulou & N. Garipidis (Eds.), Human Rights and Risks in the Digital Era: Globalization and the Effects of Information Technologies (pp. 222-239). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0891-7.ch014

Chicago

Ruggiu, Daniele. "The Concept of the “Other”: Migration, Human Rights, and Formalized Identity Building Processes in Europe." In Human Rights and Risks in the Digital Era: Globalization and the Effects of Information Technologies, edited by Christina M. Akrivopoulou and Nicolaos Garipidis, 222-239. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0891-7.ch014

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Abstract

This chapter intends to show how the absence of the right of immigration can create some malfunctions in the human rights law and how this is connected with our concept of identity. The failure of our migration control system and the impossibility of empowering human rights in the field of mobility reveals an enormous conceptual short-circuit in the structure of liberal countries in Europe, involving the relationship between the Self and the “Other.”

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