CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Smieszek, Magdalena Emilia |
|---|---|
| Title | The Evolving Psychology of Inclusion and Exclusion in European Human Rights and Asylum Frameworks |
| Summary | The dissertation applies an interdisciplinary analytical framing, drawn from theories of social psychology of inclusion and exclusion, to a discussion of legal discourse and the development of legal frameworks in Europe concerning asylum seekers, refugees, and other beneficiaries of international protection vis-à-vis European citizens. An emphasis on legal categorizations of statuses as well as distributions of social and economic rights in particular draws attention to the links between social psychology and international law. What emerges in the analysis is that a process of creating value is present both at its psychological roots and the expressions of value in the law. The research applies a psycho-historical perspective to discuss the evolution of international and European law with respect to rights of citizens and asylum-seeking non-citizens, since its inception following the Second World War up until present-day laws and policies. It shows an embrace of a European identity based on human rights as the common feature in the European treaties and institutions, one that is focused on European citizens and has inclusionary objectives. However, a cognitive dissonance is present as this common identity-making is in contrast to national proclivities, as well as securitized, threat-perception-oriented perspectives that have exclusionary manifestations concerning persons seeking asylum. Fundamentally, the emergence of laws and policies that place the human being with human dignity at the center, when understood from a psychological and emotion-based perspective, has the potential to transcend the dissonances. |
| Supervisor | Granger, Marie-Pierre |
| Department | Legal Studies PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/smieszek_magdalena.pdf |
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