The Practice of Global Citizenship

摘要: In this novel account of global citizenship, Luis Cabrera argues that all individuals have a duty to contribute directly human rights protections and promote rights-enhancing political integration between states. The Practice Global Citizenship blends careful moral argument with compelling narratives from field research among unauthorized immigrants, activists seeking protect their rights, the 'Minuteman' striving keep them out. Immigrant-rights activists, especially those conducting humanitarian patrols for border-crossers stranded in brutal Arizona desert, are shown as embodying aspects citizenship. Unauthorized immigrants themselves be enacting form 'civil' disobedience, claiming economic central emerging normative charter while challenging restrictive membership regimes norm current system. also examines European Union, seeing it crucial laboratory studying challenges inherent expanding citizen membership.