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

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Author(s): Daniele Ruggiu (University of Padua, Italy)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 18
Source title: Human Rights and Risks in the Digital Era: Globalization and the Effects of Information Technologies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Christina M. Akrivopoulou (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece)and Nicolaos Garipidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0891-7.ch014

Keywords: Human Aspects of Technology / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities

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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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