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2009 Dunbar Lecture
March 20, 7:30 p.m.
Academic Complex Room 215
Pheng Cheah (U. of California-Berkeley)
"Necessary Strangers: Law's Hospitality in the Age of Global Migration"
International organizations like transnational human rights organizations and the international society of NGOs present themselves as progressively breaking down legal barriers between members of different nations. But Cheah argues that international instruments formed by capitalist globalization necessarily exclude certain categories of foreigners. Beginning with a reading of Kant's account of cosmopolitan right as a philosophical template for the understanding of law as universal hospitality, Cheah will examine two different cases of human rights abuse in the incorporation/exclusion of strangers in high growth East and Southeast Asia: the place of foreign female domestic workers in Singapore, and the treatment of sex workers from Mainland China in Hong Kong.
Email Dr. Kristen Brown for more information.
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