Overview
- Combines psychology and law, international relations and European history
- Describes the state of our communities in the fast changing environments
- Provides a diagnosis of the multiple “crisis” in Europe as well as some possible remedies
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- theories of social psychology
- asylum seekers
- refugee law
- social and economic rights
- human dignity
- European identity
- Migration Law
- asylum law
- European Identity
- European human rights and asylum law
- social psychology of inclusion and exclusion in law
- social and economic rights of refugees and asylum seekers
- history of human rights and refugee law in Europe
- dignity and refugee law
- European constitutional foundations
- European citizens and migrants
About this book
The book applies an interdisciplinary analytical framework, based on social psychology theories of inclusion and exclusion, to a discussion of legal discourse and the development of legal frameworks in Europe concerning migrants, asylum seekers, refugees, and European citizens. It adopts a psycho-historical perspective to discuss the evolution of international and European law with regard to the rights of citizens and asylum-seeking non-citizens, from the law’s inception following the Second World War up to present-day laws and policies. The book reveals the embracing of a European identity based on human rights as the common feature in European treaties and institutions, one that is focused on European citizens and has inclusionary objectives. However, a cognitive dissonance can also be found, as this common identity-making runs counter to national proclivities, as well as securitized, threat-perception-oriented perspectives that can produce exclusionary manifestations concerning persons seeking asylum. In particular, a view of inclusion and exclusion via legal categorizations of status, as well as distributions of social and economic rights, draws attention to the links between social psychology and international law. What emerges in the analysis: a process of creating value is present both at its psychological roots and the expressions of value in the law. Fundamentally speaking, the emergence of laws and policies that center on human beings and human dignity, when understood from a psychological and emotion-based perspective, has the potential to transcend the dissonances identified.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Magdalena Smieszek is a human rights specialist, researcher, and educator, with over twenty years’ experience working internationally. This includes a ten-year period with the United Nations, primarily the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, as well as the UN Development Programme and the International Organization for Migration. She has a Doctorate of Juridical Science from the Central European University in Budapest, a Master of Studies in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford, a Juris Doctor from the University of Windsor, and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the University of Calgary. She has lectured widely on human rights subjects,including teaching at CEU and at Al-Quds Bard College in East Jerusalem.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Evolving Psyche of Law in Europe
Book Subtitle: The Psychology of Human Rights and Asylum Frameworks
Authors: Magdalena Smieszek
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74413-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74412-0Published: 05 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74415-1Published: 06 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74413-7Published: 04 June 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 275
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Rights, Public Policy, Personality and Social Psychology, European Law, Political Theory