Writing in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the
political theorist Hannah Arendt argued that the plight of
stateless people in the inter-war period pointed to the existence
of a 'right to have rights'. The right to have rights was the right
to citizenship-to membership of a political community. Since then,
and especially in recent years, theorists have continued to grapple
with the meaning of the right to have rights. In the context of
enduring statelessness, mass migration, people flows, and the
contested nature of democratic politics, the question of the right
to have rights remains of pressing concern for writers and
advocates across the disciplines. This book provides the first
in-depth examination of the right to have rights in the context of
the international protection of human rights. It explores two
overarching questions. First, how do different and competing
conceptions of the right to have rights shed light on right bearing
in the contemporary context, and in particular on concepts and
relationships central to the protection of human rights in public
international law? Secondly, given these competing conceptions, how
is the right to have rights to be understood in the context of
public international law? In the course of the analysis, the author
examines the significance and limits of nationality, citizenship,
humanity and politics for right bearing, and argues that their
complex interrelation points to how the right to have rights might
be rearticulated for the purposes of international legal thought
and practice.
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