Global Risk Society and the Cosmopolitan Argument in Favour of Open Border

Abstract

The world in which we live in today is an advanced world in every sense of the word. This advancement has come with an ultimate price which has made the modern society a global risk society. Ranging from climate change and its ecological effects, armed conflict and the culture of global displacement, international terrorists’ networks, financial crisis, compounded by economic recessions and joblessness and more recently the covid-19 global pandemic. These concerns have caused many nations to review their migration policies and legislations in which migrants are criminalized, rejected admission into other states with no cogent reasons and a deliberate lowering of standards when it comes to asylum seekers. The study through discursive analysis examines from a sociological point of view the cosmopolitan argument in favour of open borders. The findings of the study suggested that global risks are problems that are not limited to one nation alone. The study therefore recommends that there is the need for global cooperation in confronting a common enemy because if we fail to come together to confront a common enemy (Risk society) we will all die a death of a thousand extinction.