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13 September 2011: Prof. Lydia Morris' work on rights, recognition and welfare published

Prof. Lydia Morris' paper 'Rights, Recognition and Judgment: Reflections on the Case of Welfare and Asylum' has been published in The British Journal of Politics & International Relations.

The paper explores the value of bringing together a literature which takes as its focus the concept of ‘recognition’, with a more traditional sociological literature having ‘rights’ as its point of departure. It sets out the complementarity of these two perspectives and outlines the scope for their inter-relation, before using the emergent framework to interrogate a particular legal history on the removal of welfare support from in-country asylum seekers.

The paper argues that while a rights/recognition literature can inform analysis of this history, the legal cases in turn help expand the scope for recognition theory to incorporate a more cosmopolitan perspective.