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Debating the Ethics of Immigration: Is There a Right to Exclude?
Debating the Ethics of Immigration: Is There a Right to Exclude?
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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.
Author: Christopher Heath Wellman, Phillip Cole
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/30/2011
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780199731725
Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2012
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.
Author: Christopher Heath Wellman, Phillip Cole
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/30/2011
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780199731725
Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2012
About the Author
Christopher Heath Wellman is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis and Professorial Fellow at CAPPE, Charles Sturt University. He works in ethics, specializing in political and legal philosophy. His most recent book, coauthored with Andrew Altman, is A Liberal Theory of International Justice.
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