Challenging the Borders of Justice in the Age of Migrations

0506787 - SOÚ 2020 RIV CH eng M - Monography Chapter
Uhde, Zuzana
Claims for Global Justice: Migration as Lived Critique of Injustice.
Challenging the Borders of Justice in the Age of Migrations. Cham: Springer, 2019 - (Velasco, J.; La Barbera, M.), s. 183-204. ISBN 978-3-030-05589-9
Grant - others:AV ČR(CZ) StrategieAV21/15
Program: StrategieAV
Institutional support: RVO:68378025
Keywords : Transnational migration * Critical Theory * lived critique * misrecognition * global justice * care
OECD category: Political science
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332572146_Challenging_the_Borders_of_Justice_in_the_Age_of_Migrations

The chapter develops an approach for articulation of migrants’ claims for global justice which embeds the cosmopolitan critical theory of global justice in people’s everyday critique of social injustice. The author argues that by limiting our understanding of transnational subject of global protest only to organized political collectivities one overlooks significant part of social protest. She elaborates a concept of lived critique and argues that although migrants´ lived critique does not take a form of a traditional political protest, understanding social and economic migrants as a structural group allows us to capture their lived critique as a source of critique of global injustice and cosmopolitan claims for global justice and human rights. The author argues that economic and social migration represents a resistance to global social injustice and suggests that migrants in their everyday struggles question the legitimacy of present-day global order on the one hand and nationally bounded migration laws on the other hand.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0297952