OPEN BORDERS, HUMAN RIGHTS AND GLOBAL JUSTICE

A world with "open borders", which does not mean a "world without borders", would provide the most appropriate institutional framework for the recognition of human rights and the implementation of distributive justice on a global scale. This is the thesis we want to substantiate in this article. Such still fictional horizon is compared with the actual state of affairs, characterized by the systematic impediment of free circulation of people. Against this background, and with the aim to face in a more comprehensive way the question of international migration, the necessity of adopting a cosmopolitan point of view is demonstrated. To keep in view such utopian option that nevertheless is not beyond the bounds of possibility results indispensable for a critique of the disturbing perspective that conceives of human mobility as a potential threat for the established order.