Debating the ethics of immigration : is there a right to exclude? / Christopher Heath Wellman and Phillip Cole.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wellman, Christopher Heath, author.

Cole, Phillip, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Moral and ethical aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Immigrants--Civil rights.

Immigrants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 340 pages)

Other Title:

Is there a right to exclude?

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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? This book develops and defends opposing answers to this timely and important question. In addition to engaging with each other's arguments, the authors address a range of central questions and prominent positions on this topic. They provide a critical overview of the major contributions to the ethics of immigration, as well as developing original, provocative positions of their own.

Contents:

pt. 1. Feedom of association and the right to exclude / Christopher Heath Wellman

In defense of the right to exclude

The egalitarian case for open borders

The libertarian case for open borders

The democratic case for open borders

The utilitarian case for open borders

Refugees

Toward an international institution with authority over immigration

Guest workers

Selection criteria

Concluson.

pt. 2. Open borders: an ethical defence / Phillip Cole

The shape of the debate

The case against the right to exclude

Wellman on freedom of association

Consequentialist concerns

Toward a right to mobility

Conclusion.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-026749-6