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Migration dominates contemporary politics across the world, and there has been a corresponding surge in political theorizing about the complex issues that it raises. In a world in which borders seem to be solidifying while the number of displaced people soars, how should we think about the political and ethical implications of human movement across the globe?
In this book, Gillian Brock, one of the leading figures in the field, lucidly introduces and explains the important historical, empirical, and normative context necessary to get to grips with the major contemporary debates. She examines issues ranging from the permissibility of controlling borders and the criteria that states can justifiably use to underpin their migration management policies through to questions of integration, inclusion, and resistance to unjust immigration laws.
Migration and Political Theory is essential reading for any student, scholar, or general reader who seeks to understand the political theory and ethics of migration and movement in the twenty-first century.
List of contents
Acknowledgments 1 Introduction
1.1 Some facts about migration today
1.2 International migration: some types, drivers and effects
1.3 Is the contemporary state of affairs unique? Some history
1.4 Overview of subsequent chapters
2 The Right to Exclude and Open Borders
2.1 Arguments for states' rights to exclude
2.2 Arguments for obligations to allow free movement across borders
2.3 Conclusions
3 Forced Migration and Responsibilities: The Case of Refugees
3.1 Who counts as a refugee?
3.2 Current arrangements for assisting refugees
3.3 Duties to refugees
3.4 Some contemporary issues concerning duties to refugees
3.5 Conclusions
4 Which Criteria May States Permissibly Use in Selection and Citizenship Policies?
4.1 Which criteria may states use in their admissions policies?
4.2 Some critical discussion of Carens's influential account
4.3 Which criteria may permissibly be used in granting citizenship?
4.4 Should citizenship be for sale?
4.5 Conclusions
5 Legal Immigrants and their Host States: Rights and Responsibilities
5.1 Multicultural citizenship: Will Kymlicka and his critics
5.2 Beyond legal citizenship to inclusion
5.3 David Miller on integration
5.4 Conclusions
6 Undocumented Migrants and their Host States: Rights and Responsibilities
6.1 Do undocumented migrants have any rights? Some basic human rights considered
6.2 Rights to remain: considerations in favor of regularization
6.3 Criticisms of regularization
6.4 Conclusions
7 Fair Treatment for Temporary Migrant Workers
7.1 Walzer's influential argument on guest workers and justice
7.2 Can any temporary migrant worker program ever be justified?
7.3 Conclusions
8 Justice in Out-Migration
8.1 The Siracusa Principles
8.2 The brain drain: why is there a problem?
8.3 Addressing issues of brain drain: responsibilities and policy options
8.4 Can the case of migrating healthcare professionals generalize to other sectors?
8.5 Conclusions
9 Emerging Issues and Future Directions
9.1 Contemporary issues concerning enforcement
9.2 Resistance
9.3 Cities and immigration
9.4 Methodological challenges to contemporary approaches
9.5 How might considering the Covid-19 situation change debates about migration in the future?
9.6 Concluding reflections
Bibliography
About the author
Gillian Brock is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland
Summary
Migration dominates contemporary politics across the world, and there has been a corresponding surge in political theorizing about the complex issues that it raises. In a world in which borders seem to be solidifying while the number of displaced people soars, how should we think about the political and ethical implications of human movement across the globe?
In this book, Gillian Brock, one of the leading figures in the field, lucidly introduces and explains the important historical, empirical, and normative context necessary to get to grips with the major contemporary debates. She examines issues ranging from the permissibility of controlling borders and the criteria that states can justifiably use to underpin their migration management policies through to questions of integration, inclusion, and resistance to unjust immigration laws.
Migration and Political Theory is essential reading for any student, scholar, or general reader who seeks to understand the political theory and ethics of migration and movement in the twenty-first century.
