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Crime and Citizenship

Witnessing the large-scale displacement and conditions of statelessness in the wake of the Second World War, political theorist Hannah Arendt coined the evocative phrase the right to have rights, arguing that the fundamental right, from which all other rights sprung, was the right to membership of a political community.

Neha Jain Neha Jain

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The right to have rights: from migration to integration

One of the key tasks of my stay at STIAS will be to work on a project that addresses the normative and institutional basis of what Hannah Arendt calls the right to have rights.

Hans Lindahl Hans Lindahl Sofia Näsström Sofia Näsström
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