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  • Social Sciences
  • Human Rights Studies
  • Political Philosophy

Background:

  • Existing frameworks for protecting vulnerable individuals often rely on concepts like human dignity.
  • Comparative research necessitates reliable conceptual tools for analyzing vulnerability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the efficacy of human rights and citizenship as protective systems for vulnerable populations.
  • To establish vulnerability as a more dependable analytical concept than individual dignity in comparative studies.

Main Methods:

  • Comparative analysis of human rights and citizenship frameworks.
  • Conceptual examination of vulnerability and dignity.

Main Results:

  • Human rights and citizenship offer distinct but valuable protections for vulnerable individuals.
  • Vulnerability, particularly its grounding in the physical body, provides a more consistent basis for comparative research than individual dignity.

Conclusions:

  • The concept of vulnerability, linked to the physical body, offers a stronger foundation for comparative research on protecting individuals than human dignity.
  • Both human rights and citizenship are important, but understanding vulnerability is key to effective protection.