The Practice of Global Citizenship

by Luis Cabrera

• ISBN13: 9780521128100
• ISBN10: 0521128102
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780511850790
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-22
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

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

Author Biography

Luis Cabrera is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Birmingham, where he also serves as an associate member of the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Theoretical concerns	p. 11
Global citizenship as individual cosmopolitanism	p. 13
Rights, duties, and global institutions	p. 34
Defining and distributing duties	p. 66
Global citizenship in practice	p. 97
Minutemen and desert samaritans: citizenship practice in conflict	p. 99
Mobile global citizens	p. 131
Global citizen duties within less-affluent states	p. 154
Advocacy and institutions	p. 179
Regional citizenship and global citizenship	p. 181
Advocacy duties and global democracy	p. 211
Education and motivation for global citizenship	p. 238
Conclusion: the practice of global citizenship	p. 258
Appendix	p. 263
Works cited	p. 265
Index	p. 305
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