Right Not to Stay - Justice in Migration, Liberal Democratic State, Case of Temporary

A central question in the debate on justice in immigration is whether immigrants have a right to stay; this book argues that liberal-democratic receiving states should also grant migrants a right not to stay.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Temporary Migration Projects


• 3: Migration, Ideal Theory and the Pursuit of Happiness


• 4: When is Migration Voluntary?


• 5: Migrants' Agency, Liberalism, and Life Plans


• 6: Welfare and Work Rights


• 7: Allegiance and Political Rights


• 8: Concluding Remarks

About the author

Valeria Ottonelli is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Genoa, Italy. Her main research interests focus on the theory of just migration policies and on the normative theory of democratic institutions and participation.

Tiziana Torresi is Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Adelaide, School of Social Sciences. She received her Doctorate in Politics and International Relations from the University of Oxford, where she also held a Lectureship in Politics at Worcester college. Her research interests are mainly in contemporary political theory and normative international theory.

Summary

A central question in the debate on justice in immigration is whether immigrants have a right to stay; this book argues that liberal-democratic receiving states should also grant migrants a right not to stay.

Additional text

The Right Not to Stay thus takes up a twice-neglected topic, addressing the question of what voluntary migrants are owed in virtue of the role temporary migration plays in their life-plans...The Right Not to Stay represents a huge step towards the theorization of migration as it actually is.

Product details

• Authors: Valeria Ottonelli, Valeria (Professor of Political Philoso Ottonelli, Tiziana Torresi
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9780192866776
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286677-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Ethical issues & debates, Political science and theory, Ethical issues and debates