Decolonisation and Postcolonial MigrationCitizenship and Empire

Explores decolonialisation and applies a postcolonial approach to global justice

• Explains the distinctiveness of colonial historical relationships and the qualitative differences between
• Contrasts the Western approach to global justice with decolonization and postcolonial approaches
• Combines decolonization and postcolonial approaches in order to provide an alternative approach to Western approaches
• Argues that there are aspects of Western approaches that non-Western societies should adopt alongside decolonization and postcolonial approaches

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.