1.

Record Nr.

UNISOBE600200012502

Autore

Euripides

Titolo

Medea Ippolito / Euripide ; trad. di Raffaele Cantarella ; intr., note e commento di Marina Cavalli ; cur. Dario Del Corno

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano, : Mondadori, 1985

Descrizione fisica

LVI, 213 p. ; 19 cm.

Collana

Biblioteca

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459144203321

Autore

Morris Lydia <1949-, >

Titolo

Asylum, welfare and the cosmopolitan ideal : a sociology of rights / / Lydia Morris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxon [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-99648-6

1-136-99649-4

1-282-58969-5

9786612589690

0-203-85528-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 p.)

Disciplina

342.08/3

Soggetti

Asylum, Right of - Social aspects

Human rights

Asylum, Right of - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A GlassHouse book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [158]-165) and index.



Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 The right to have rights: Fond illusion or credo for our times?; Chapter 2 Asylum immigration and the art of government; Chapter 3 Welfare asylum and the politics of judgement; Chapter 4 Civil society and civil repair; Chapter 5 An emergent cosmopolitan paradigm?; Chapter 6 Civic stratification and the cosmopolitan ideal; Chapter 7 Cosmopolitanism, human rights and judgement; Chapter 8 Conclusion: A sociology of rights; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Asylum, Welfare and the Cosmopolitan Ideal: A Sociology of Rights puts forward the argument that rights must be understood as part of a social process: a terrain for strategies of inclusion and exclusion but also of contestation and negotiation. Engaging debate about how 'cosmopolitan' principles and practices may be transforming national sovereignty, Lydia Morris explores this premise through a case study of legal activism, civil society mobilisation, and judicial decision-making. The book documents government attempts to use destitution as a deterrent to control asylum numbers, a