ABSTRACT
This chapter lays out an alternative vision of free movement across borders. It considers the civilisational universalisms of the past as well as traditions of hospitality and pilgrimage. Such resources fill gaps of logic both in ideas of national membership based on citizenship and in liberal schemes of individual rights. This account challenges the extent to which a swollen view of state sovereignty today allegedly justifies impairing free movement. It works through the different ways in which individuals can have ties to a territory to justify access, and the claims of justice that engagements in world society can generate. Finally, it maps out a long-term trajectory in which freer movement can overcome practical obstacles and gain comprehensive legitimacy. In contrast to the atomisation that some fear might come from opening borders, this multilayered cosmopolitanism would offset future mobility with stronger spaces of identity and participation both locally and in civil society.
