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Written by an international team of leading political and legal theory scholars whose writings have contributed to shaping the field, Migration in Political Theory presents seminal new work on the ethics of movement and membership.
The volume addresses challenging and under-researched themes on the subject of migration. It debates the question of whether we ought to recognize a human right to immigrate, and whether it might be legitimate to restrict emigration. The authors critically examine criteria for selecting would-be migrants, and for acquiring citizenship, as well as the tensions between the claims of immigrants and existing residents, and tackle questions of migrant worker exploitation and responsibility for refugees. All of the chapters illustrate the importance of drawing on the tools of political theory to clarifying, criticize and challenge the current terms of the migration debate.
List of contents
- 1: Sarah Fine and Lea Ypi: The Ethics of Movement and Membership: An Introduction
- Part One: Entry and Exit
- 2: David Miller: Is there a Human Right to Immigrate?
- 3: Kieran Oberman: Immigration as a Human Right
- 4: Anna Stilz: Is there an Unqualified Right to Leave?
- 5: Christopher Heath Wellman: Freedom of Movement and the Rights to Enter and Exit
- Part Two: Migration, Equality, and Justice
- 6: Arash Abizadeh: The Special-Obligations Challenge to More Open Borders
- 7: Sarah Fine: Immigration and Discrimination
- 8: Lea Ypi: Taking Workers as a Class: The Moral Dilemmas of Guestworker Programmes
- 9: Ayelet Shachar: Selecting By Merit: The Brave New World of Stratified Mobility
- Part Three: Migration and Membership
- 10: Joseph H. Carens: In Defense of Birthright Citizenship
- 11: Sarah Song: The Significance of Territorial Presence and the Rights of Immigrants
- 12: Chandran Kukathas: Are Refugees Special?
- 13: David Owen: In Loco Civitatis: On the Normative Basis of the Institution of Refugeehood and Responsibilities for Refugees
About the author
Sarah Fine is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at King's College London. She was previously a Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. She specialises in issues relating to migration and citizenship. Her forthcoming book, Immigration and the Right to Exclude (OUP), sets out to challenge the idea that the state has a moral right to exclude would-be immigrants. Her publications include 'Freedom of Association Is Not the Answer' in Ethics.
Lea Ypi is a Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. She is the author of Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency (Oxford University Press 2012), The Meaning of Partisanship, (OUP 2016, with Jonathan White) and the co-editor of Kant and Colonialism (Oxford University Press 2014, with Katrin Flikschuh).
Summary
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.
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"Migration questions are among the most frequently discussed in contemporary politics. In answering such questions readers would do well to consult Sarah Fine and Lea Ypi's wonderful collection of ground-breaking essays, which includes chapters from some of the most prominent scholars working on the ethics of movement and membership today. The essays also invite reflection on wider topics including the future of democratic citizenship and obligations of social justice in a context of exclusionary migration policies, cultural diversity and the erosion of social cohesion. Authors expose many inconsistencies and injustices in contemporary practices governing migration. This well-edited book helpfully pushes several debates forward and is a most welcome addition to current literature."
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"In their introduction to Migration in Political Theory, the editors claim that its essays will 'highlight and scrutinize the central, prevalent assumptions about migration that 'inform current political thinking about migration, as well as countless migration and naturalization policies.' The book delivers on this substantial promise, while also interrogating many of the core normative claims advanced in the theoretical migration debates. Although some essays echo arguments that have been advanced before, this is a largely original volume, as well as a timely and significant contribution to the field." Shelley Wilcox, San Francisco State University
