Cosmopolitan Norms and European Values: Ethical Perspectives on Europe’s Refugee Policy

This volume offers a philosophical analysis of the normative challenges facing European refugee policy. By considering the refugee policy through the lens of European values, cosmopolitan norms, and universal human rights, the chapters expose the limitations of existing regulations and propose how to improve them.

Marie Göbel is a research associate at the Philosophy Department of the University of Bochum, Germany, and the project coordinator of the Digital Kant Center NRW, project location Bochum. From 2019 to 2021, she was a member of the Horizon2020 research project Norms and Values in the European Migration and Refugee Crisis (NoVaMigra). Her research focuses on human rights, human dignity, metaethical questions and Kant’s practical philosophy. She is the author of Human Dignity as the Ground of Human Rights: A Study in Moral Philosophy and Legal Practice (2019) and several papers on Kant and human dignity.

Andreas Niederberger is professor of political, legal and social philosophy and deputy chair of the Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He was coordinator of the Horizon2020 research project Norms and Values in the European Migration and Refugee Crisis (NoVaMigra). His research focuses on migration and refugee ethics, human rights, democratic theory, theories of normativity and social ontology. Among his publications are Republican Democracy: Liberty, Law and Politics (co-edited with Philipp Schink, 2013), Internationale Politische Theorie (co-edited with R. Kreide, 2016) and Klimawandel und Ethik (co-edited with J. Gehrmann, R. Langer, 2020).