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Liberal Self-Determination in a World of Migration develops and defends a theory for why some children and some adults have a right to citizenship in a liberal state, and why adult citizens have a moral right to design and implement their own immigration arrangements. It also discusses the moral duties that liberal states have in the areas of asylum, family migration, and skilled migration, with surprising implications regarding who exactly has a moral right to be included on a permanent basis in a liberal state.
Sommario
- Introduction
- Part I. On Citizenship and Self-determination
- Chapter 1. Citizenship and Paternalism
- Chapter 2. Citizenship and Autonomy
- Chapter 3. Liberal Self-determination, Discrimination, and the Right to Exclude
- Part II. On Morality and Migration
- Chapter 4. What Is Political about Asylum?
- Chapter 5. Family Migration Schemes and Liberal Neutrality: A Dilemma
- Chapter 6. Immigration, Self-determination, and the Brain Drain
- Chapter 7. Discrimination and Immigration Control
Info autore
Luara Ferracioli is Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy at the University of Sydney. She was awarded her PhD from the Australian National University in 2013, and has held appointments at the University of Oxford, Princeton University, and the University of Amsterdam. Her main areas of research are the ethics of immigration and family justice.
Riassunto
The values of freedom and equality are at the heart of what it means for liberal states to do justice to their citizens. Yet, when it comes to the question of whether liberal states are capable of realizing the values of freedom and equality while controlling their borders, many philosophers are skeptical that liberalism and existing immigration arrangements can in fact be reconciled. After all, liberal states often deny entrance to prospective immigrants who are fleeing extreme forms of violence. They also often police their borders in ways that are discriminatory and stigmatizing, contributing to a situation where immigrants are treated as morally inferior by society at large. Such practices conflict strongly with any commitment to the values of freedom and equality.
Luara Ferracioli here focuses on three key questions regarding the movement of persons across international borders: What gives some residents of a liberal society a right to be considered citizens of that society such that they have a claim to make decisions with regard to its political future? And do citizens of a liberal society have a prima facie right to exclude prospective immigrants despite their commitment to the values of freedom and equality? Finally, if citizens have this prima facie right to exclude prospective immigrants, are there moral requirements regarding how they may exercise it? The book therefore tackles the most pressing philosophical questions that arise from immigration: the questions of who can exercise self-determination, and why they have such a right in the first place.
Testo aggiuntivo
Most accounts of states' right to exclude immigrants address why states can exclude immigrants, when and why deportation is permissible, and limits on the right to exclude in cases of desperately needy migrants...Luara Ferracioli takes on all these questions and more in her illuminating and measured book, Liberal Self-Determination in a World of Migration
