Este trabajo trata de aplicar el modelo teórico de la relación entre la división etnoracial y el Estado penal en los Estados Unidos al fenómeno del extraordinario incremento de la encarcelación de los inmigrantes postcoloniales en la Unión Europea durante las dos últimas décadas en la era del neoliberalismo triunfante. La construcción de la “Europa fortaleza” en la era de la flexibilización del trabajo y de la inseguridad social generalizada, ha acelerado un doble movimiento que condena al ostracismo a los (...) inmigrantes. El primero actúa a través del traslado externo, mediante la expulsión, de los inmigrantes irregulares. El segundo opera a través de su extirpación interna mediante el incremento de su encarcelación. Estos dos procesos se dirigen directamente contra las poblaciones que expresan el “exterior”, tanto desde punto de vista social como simbólico, de la emergente Europa postnacional, a saber, los inmigrantes postcoloniales y sus descendientes más inmediatos. (shrink)

The discourse and practice of humanism is at a cross-road, now challenged by posthuman reflections on what it means to be human. Our understanding of human and humanism is also challenged by transformations in nation-state and citizenship. In this context, the present article explores pathways of a new global humanity emerging out of cross-cultural reflections and new intellectual and social movements.

This paper focuses on the relevance of borders and national membership as barriers to first admission. Strengths and weaknesses of the different liberal arguments for open and restricted borders will be analysed, focusing on the ‘liberal paradox’ which holds that an asymmetrical view on entry and exit is compatible with the liberal commitment to equality and individual liberties. Finally, a proposal will be formulated in order to find a middle way between the idealism of open borders and more realist versions (...) of liberal egalitarianism by incorporating a hermeneutical account of human morality as a relational, contextual matter which does not think in terms of borders but instead of trans-boundary dialogical spaces. (shrink)

The attempt in this article is to reflect on the notion of hospitality, building on Derrida's engagement with the notion. In doing so, I visit some of the debates on cosmopolitanism, a term which, I believe, is sometimes used overenthusiastically, neglecting the negative implications it might carry. Besides, I observe the same uncritical stance towards the reception of Kant's notion of `universal hospitality', developed in his famous piece on `Perpetual Peace', a text that has been at the core of the (...) recent debates on cosmopolitanism. I revisit Kant's text to discuss the implications of his project. I distinguish between `the other' and `the stranger', and try to develop a politics and ethics of hospitality due to the stranger. I conclude with some implications of `not being home'. (shrink)