ABSTRACT
This chapter describes between three cosmopolitanisms of migrant protests: a cosmopolitanism of law and human rights, a cosmopolitanism of inclusion and hospitality, and a cosmopolitanism of freedom of borders. The state laws make mobile persons illegal, migration is seen as a threat of overpopulation and denaturation of the values and identity of the receiving countries and political theory of migration adopts the state view and ends up making people illegal as well. Open borders is a response to closed borders arguments, and claims that immigration restrictions are inconsistent with basic liberal egalitarian values, including freedom and moral equality, and that affluent, liberal democratic societies are morally obliged to admit immigrants as a partial response to global injustices, such as poverty and human rights violations. The law incriminated hospitality and the migrant protest generated a public support. The migrant activism captured the attention of political theorists and scholars of migration who approached it from a plurality of perspectives.
