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Migrants, State Responsibilities, and Human Dignity
Author(s) -
Brownsword Roger
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
ratio juris
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1467-9337
pISSN - 0952-1917
DOI - 10.1111/raju.12303
Subject(s) - dignity , seriousness , state (computer science) , relation (database) , value (mathematics) , law , sociology , political science , environmental ethics , law and economics , philosophy , mathematics , computer science , algorithm , database , statistics
This article addresses two questions: First, how does the value of human dignity distinctively bear on a state’s responsibilities in relation to migrants; and, secondly, how serious a wrong is it when a state fails to respect the dignity of migrants? In response to these questions, a view is presented about the distinction between wrongs that violate cosmopolitan standards and wrongs that violate the standards that are distinctive to a particular community; about when and how the contested concept of human dignity might be engaged; and, elaborating a three‐tiered and lexically ordered scheme of state responsibilities, about how we should assess the seriousness of a state’s failure to respect the dignity of migrants.