Territorial rights and rights to movement and subsistence

We find ourselves in a world where wars, poverty and environmental crises are increasingly forcing people out of their countries, regions, places of settlement and so on. These, indeed, are all urgent challenges that states are facing and that call for more normative work aimed at providing states with fine theoretical tools to orient their immigration and borders-control policies.

The main normative problems lie on different possible ways to interpret and justify states’ territorial rights and, particularly, states’ right to control their borders and massive flows of people across them. We would like to tackle fundamental questions such as whether migrants’ exclusion violates their rights to movement and subsistence with a specific focus on what states’ territorial rights entail.

The workshop is funded by CLOE - Training to complexity: multidisciplinary approaches to rural and mountain sustainable development and conservation, an interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral Doctoral Programme developed and coordinated by the University of Genoa, as sole beneficiary, in collaboration with a network of host academic and non-academic organizations. CLOE DP is funded under the H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2020 scheme (G.A. n 101034449).

Organizers: Rita Ezugwu [email protected], Camilla Barbieri ([email protected]), and Chiara Molinero ([email protected]).