Cosmopolitics on trial: the question of the foreigner

Abstract

The article aims to rework the notion of cosmopolitanism in order to rethink, from this perspective, the foreigner issue. For this, the author illustrates the experience of citizens with “no rights” from the perspective of exclusion and the Kantian conception of universal hospitality. Then, the reader is invited to think about the new policy within a spatial framework for understanding the spatial policy not by abolishing the geopolitical boundaries but by hosting overseas within the space of activity and civic responsibilities. So, in the public space of each political community it will be decided each preferentially cosmopolitic perspective depending on the way foreigners are accepted and how are them recognized one belonging to the world, the same right to be singled out. Finally, with the redefinition of the cosmopolitics proposed here, ​​the right of asylum for every citizen and the right of citizenship to every stateless person are revalued.