01752nas a2200265   4500000000100000008004100001260000900042653001100051653001100062653001100073653001900084653002300103653001800126653001900144653001700163653001900180653001400199653002600213100002100239700002100260245010700281300001000388490000700398520108100405       2015                            d  c201510aasylum10aEthics10aEurope10aEuropean Union10afundamental rights10ahuman dignity10ahuman mobility10ahuman rights10aHuman Security10asmuggling10aSyrian asylum seekers1 aFrancesca Vietti1 aRoberto Tibaldeo00aA Human Rights and Ethical Lens on Security and Human Dignity: The Case Study of Syrian Asylum Seekers  a35-530 v333 a<p>The article tackles the plural and evolving concepts of security by analysing their relation to human rights and ethics. Although the general impression is that seldom the security discourse is associated with the respect of human rights and ethics, at least from a theoretical point of view security is indeed intertwined with those normative features (first thesis). Moreover, ethics and human rights can be valuably and usefully employed to clarify issues related to security and eventually to suggest improvements in the political management of security issues (second thesis). We argue our theses by focusing on a case study of particular relevance to the present day debate on security: the Syrian asylum seekers headed to Europe. In our ethical and human rights enquiry into this case study we consider multiple aspects related to security (‘de jure’ or normative, ‘de facto’ and perceptive-societal) and the interpretative lens provided by ethics and human rights sheds light on the crucial and manifold centrality played by the notion of human dignity.</p>