Hatice Sare Temel
h.temel.1@research.gla.ac.uk
Research title: Refugee Rights in Rawlsian Justice Theory
Research Summary
Global Justice and Immigration: Associative Duty to Admit”
In my dissertation, I argued for a transborder responsibility for justice that entails a duty of admission for prospective immigrants. I started my argument with a comparison of the site of Rawlsian theory of justice and International human rights law jurisdiction; then, I developed the first part of my argument using the theory of associative obligations and finally concluded an imperfect-to-perfect duty by bringing supportive arguments from the ethics of border control and the human rights theory. The main argument is predicated on the supremacy and the urgency of universal human rights and proposes immigration as an imminent solution for extensive violations of one’s rights.
Conferences
MANCEPT: New Directions in Human Rights Theory: 'Right to Have Rights: The Transformation of Human to Citizen' September 2025
Association for Social and Political Philosophy Annual Conference 'Associative Responsibility as the Ground for Transnational Justice' July 2025
Northern UK Human Rights Network Work-in-Progress Session 'Immigration as the Outcome of Global Justice' February 2023
University of Leeds Centre for Contemporary Political Theory- Graduate Conference on The Political Theory of Dignity 'Human Dignity as Criterion of Equality' September 2022