Sovereignty and Borders

International Institutions
https://www.un.org/en/
https://europa.eu/european-union/index_en
https://www.icc-cpi.int
Websites of the United Nations, European Union, and International Criminal Court.

Open Borders
https://openborders.info
A ‘blog-cum-website’ dedicated to making the case for open borders.
http://noborders.org.uk
UK network fighting against borders and immigration controls.

Democracy Earth
https://democracy.earth
Group seeking to develop ‘borderless governance’ where ‘incorruptible decision making’ is enabled, using blockchain technology.

The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/eu-referendum
The Guardian newspaper’s homepages for news, analysis, and opinion related to Brexit.

United Nations Refugee Agency
https://www.unhcr.org/uk
Website of the UNHCR.

Philosophy Bites
https://philosophybites.com/2018/02/sarah-fine-on-the-right-to-exclude.html
Podcast with Sarah Fine, on the state’s right to exclude.

Forum for Philosophy:
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/theforum/sovereignty/
Three academics discuss the concept of sovereignty, and its relevance to the twenty-first century.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/theforum/who-is-a-refugee/
Three academics discuss the question of who counts as a refugee, and whether current legal definitions ought to be revised.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/theforum/this-house-believes-we-should-leave-the-european-union/
Debate from April 2016 on whether the UK should leave the EU.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/theforum/a-right-to-migrate/
Discussion of whether people have a right to migrate, and the implications of such a right for states’ right to exclude.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sovereignty/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/immigration/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/globalization/
Entries on sovereignty, immigration, and globalization.

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