ABSTRACT
Seyla Benhabib was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1950. Benhabib is an Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University. Benhabib is a prolific writer on migration, citizenship, gender, multiculturalism, and political membership. Among her most important works are: Transformations of Citizenship: Dilemmas of the Nation-State in the Era of Globalization, and The Rights of Others: Aliens, Residents and Citizens. The Rights of Others applies philosophical thinking to the subject of migration and draws attention to a scantly theorized aspect of global justice: political membership. Benhabib's mixed-methods approach, which consists of both a normative-analytical framework and detailed empirical case studies of relevant debates in Europe, bridges a gap between political theory and case-based research in migration and refugee studies. The Rights of Others won the 2005 Ralph Bunche Prize from the American Political Science Association and the Best Book Award from the North American Society for Social Philosophy.
