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Immigration and the Constraints of Justice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 211

Immigration and the Constraints of Justice

This book explores the constraints which justice imposes on immigration policy. Like liberal nationalists, Ryan Pevnick argues that citizens have special claims to the institutions of their states. However, the source of these special claims is located in the citizenry's ownership of state institutions rather than in a shared national identity. Citizens contribute to the construction and maintenance of institutions (by paying taxes and obeying the law), and as a result they have special claims to these institutions and a limited right to exclude outsiders. Pevnick shows that the resulting view justifies a set of policies - including support for certain types of guest worker programs - which is distinct from those supported by either liberal nationalists or advocates of open borders. His book provides a framework for considering a number of connected topics including issues related to self-determination, the scope of distributive justice and the significance of shared national identity.

Immigration and Discrimination
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 231

Immigration and Discrimination

Immigration and Discrimination explores what bases states are morally permitted to use for their admission decisions and policies, and why. Sahar Akhtar argues that the idea of wrongful discrimination can be applied to states' admission decisions, and what this means in terms of states' rights with regard to immigration.

Immigration and Freedom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 382

Immigration and Freedom

Panoptica -- Immigration -- Control -- Equality -- Economy -- Culture -- State -- Freedom.

Beyond the Law's Reach?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

Beyond the Law's Reach?

Beyond the Law's Reach? argues that fundamental assumptions in contemporary political philosophy need to be rethought in the face of pervasive political violence. At an applied level, Nili develops this claim by delving into a series of specific controversies, all revolving around affluent democracies' policy responses to the threat of pervasive violence abroad. Examples include the ethics of giving refuge to beleaguered autocrats to avert civil war in their country, the ethics of prosecuting foreign officials who have colluded with drug cartels, and the admission of oligarchs who acquired their riches by distorting their country's rule of law. At a more theoretical level, the book shows tha...

Migration in Political Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Migration in Political Theory

  • Categories: Law

This volume presents the latest work on the ethics of movement and membership by a team of leading international scholars whose writings have contributed to shaping this field.

Full Responsibility
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 299

Full Responsibility

Starting with an appreciation of the practical realizations that move us to assume responsibility, Full Responsibility develops an ontologically-grounded model of different forms of responsibility and the challenges and fulfillments found in each. Special attention is given to pragmatic and political responsibility, highlighting considerations for right action that are not accurately recognized by universalizing ethics. Issues in abortion decisions, providing for responsible work, and immigration and refugee policy are examined in the complex frame of political responsibility. Moving past the standoff between political moralism and political realism, Steven G. Smith offers an account of political responsibility as an unstable combination of all modes of responsibility. The book concludes by reviewing different approaches to the impossible but compelling ideal of full responsibility. The distinctive natures of ethical, historical, and religious forms of responsibility are discussed in appendices.

Justice at a Distance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

Justice at a Distance

Justice at a Distance argues that global justice is largely caused by ill-designed local political structures, not because of insufficient aid.

Debating the Ethics of Immigration
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 350

Debating the Ethics of Immigration

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-09-30
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  • Publisher: OUP USA

Do states have the right to prevent potential immigrants from crossing their borders, or should people have the freedom to migrate and settle wherever they wish? Christopher Heath Wellman and Phillip Cole develop and defend opposing answers to this timely and important question. Appealing to the right to freedom of association, Wellman contends that legitimate states have broad discretion to exclude potential immigrants, even those who desperately seek to enter. Against this, Cole argues that the commitment to the moral equality of all human beings - which legitimate states can be expected to hold - means national borders must be open: equal respect requires equal access, both to territory and membership; and that the idea of open borders is less radical than it seems when we consider how many territorial and community boundaries have this open nature. In addition to engaging with each other's arguments, Wellman and Cole address a range of central questions and prominent positions on this topic. The authors therefore provide a critical overview of the major contributions to the ethics of migration, as well as developing original, provocative positions of their own.

Deliberative Democracy for Diabolical Times
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

Deliberative Democracy for Diabolical Times

Argues that critical contemporary challenges to democracy can be overcome by a citizen-centric deliberative approach.

Private Virtues, Public Vices
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 259

Private Virtues, Public Vices

Donations and Deference -- Equality and Philanthropic Relationships -- Plutocratic Philanthropy -- Philanthropic Paternalism -- Ordinary Donors and Democratic Philanthropy -- International Philanthropy.