Globalisation and Cosmopolitan Citizenship: Migrating Bodies, Practices and Ideas - Audio

This second event in the UCL Global Migration Symposium Series addressed contemporary forms of cosmopolitanism in the context of global migration. Cosmopolitanism today is no longer the exclusive province of elites. Labour migrants, sojourners, religious believers, and refugees are also open to the world, although they interact with it differently than their professional counterparts. In fact, in today’s world, cosmopolitanism is a necessity not a choice. What are the rights and responsibilities of global citizenship? How can we begin to imagine a community that extends beyond national borders and where do the elements come from with which to create it?