Allocating Duties and Distributing Responsibilities in a Post-Territorial Human Rights Paradigm

Abstract

Migration is one of the frontier areas for rethinking the way in which human rights obligations are typically allocated. Not only is migration externalised and privatised, it is also a consequence of structural global inequalities. But complexity cannot be an excuse for lack of human rights accountability. Nor is there an unchecked mission creep: if human rights are indeed universal, there is no other option but to fill post-territorial gaps in human rights protection.

Keywords

• Extraterritoriality
• Human Rights
• Migration