%0 Journal Article
%T Utopian Political Theory and Migration without Borders
%A Ricard Zapata-Barrero
%J International Journal of Social Science Studies
%D 2013
%I 
%R 10.11114/ijsss.v1i1.57
%X A utopian political theory (UPT) can emerge from the analysis of borders. The significant increase in human mobility between State-borders constitutes the empirical referent distinguishing our ˇ°Utopian Ageˇ± from others in the past, as historical examples of UPT have not dealt with either the issue of human mobility or the topic of ˇ°Migration without Bordersˇ±. We start with a brief introduction about utopia as a political discourse (section 1). We go then to the main characteristics of UPT leading to a ˇ°world without bordersˇ± (section 2). We seek to address this issue theoretically, to establish the bases of utopian thought not so much as a social theory, but rather as a political theory (section 3). This constitutes a prior phase for dealing with the irresolvable political dilemmas that have emerged from the management of migratory flows (section 4).
%U http://redfame.com/journal/index.php/ijsss/article/view/57