Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 6-28 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Journal | Ratio Juris |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - Mar 2021 |