Saving Migrants’ Basic Human Rights from Sovereign Rule

States cannot legitimately enforce their borders against migrants if dominant conceptions of sovereignty inform enforcement because these undermine sufficient respect for migrants’ basic human rights. Instead, such lead states to assert total control over outsiders’ potential cross-border movements support in-group’s self-rule. Thus, although legitimacy requires prioritize universal rights, sovereign today generally fail do so when it comes border enforcement. I contend that this could only be rendered legitimate was predicated on more desirable supported the prioritization Specifically, would not establish and require absolute state as a necessary precondition true popular self-governance.