Decolonisation and Postcolonial Migration: Citizenship and Empire
By (Author) Frank Aragbonfoh Abumere
Edinburgh University Press
Edinburgh University Press
7th January 2026
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Human rights, civil rights
International relations
National liberation and independence
Hardback
192
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
This book reconceptualises the relational approach to global justice to analyse what and why former colonial states owe their former colonies. While arguments for lifting restrictions on a former empire's citizens right to enter the metropolis are usually based on cosmopolitan egalitarian grounds (the universal equality of persons) and humanitarian grounds, Abumere's postcolonial relational approach bases the argument for lifting such restrictions on the grounds of: the colonial historical relationship between former colonial states and their former colonies; and specifically, the historical injustice that characterised the relationship.