Immigration and discrimination : (un)welcoming others / Sahar Akhtar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Akhtar, Sahar Zahida, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Government policy--Moral and ethical aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Discrimination.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 222 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Prompted both by past policies and recent developments concerning immigration around the world that centre on race, ethnicity, religion, and other identities, 'Immigration and Discrimination' explores what bases states are morally permitted to use for their admission decisions and policies, and why. Many scholars appeal to the terminology and concept of wrongful discrimination when discussing identity-based immigration decisions, but there has been little to no effort dedicated to examining whether the idea of wrongful discrimination - traditionally applied to interactions among people within a state - is applicable at the global level, or to interactions among people in different states.

Contents:

Introduction: Immigration and Identity

1. Race, Ethnicity, and Religion Take Center Stage

2. The Argument of This Book

3. Chapter Outlines

1: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion under States' Choice

1. Introduction

2. Some Cases and Terminology

3. States' Choice

3.1 Culture

3.2 Association

4. Why Discrimination, and Why Antidiscrimination?

2: Core Elements of Antidiscrimination

2. Wrongful Discrimination

3. Antidiscrimination

4. Antidiscrimination and Relational Equality

5. Are Such Concerns Restricted to the Domestic Context?

3: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in the Global Context

2. Global Status: An Initial Description

3. Global Status: Refining the Idea

4. How Does Global Status Matter?

5. Domestic Status and Differentiating among Cases

6. Explaining Navajo and Other Hypothetical Cases

7. How Global Status Explains Real Cases

4: Global Antidiscrimination Duties

2. Antidiscrimination Sites

3. States as Antidiscrimination Sites

4. Global Status and Global Relations

5. Contributing to Collective Goods and Incurring Obligations

6. The Plausibility of the Primary Duties: Revisiting the Wrong to Members View

5: The Primary Duties

2. Recap and Terminology

3. Do Racial or Ethnic Criteria Always Violate the Primary Duties?

4. Role of Region and Type of Disadvantage

4.1 The Excluded Group(s)

4.2 The Admitting Group

4.3 The Role of Shared Region

5. The Primary Duties and Other Identities

6. Antidiscrimination, Not Corrective Justice

6: Between the Primary Duties and Open Borders

2. Non-identity Criteria.

3. Further Antidiscrimination Duties

3.1 Duties Not to Selectively Exclude When It Contributes to Disadvantages

3.2 Antidiscrimination Duties to the Poor

4. Antidiscrimination Versus Open Borders

5. Why Not Open Borders?

7: Rejecting the Right to Exclude

2. The Right to Exclude: What Exactly Is It?

3. States' Right to Do Wrong

4. What Is at Stake?

5. The Autonomy to Wrong the State's Members?

6. A Right to Exclude and Wronging Nonmembers?

7. The Right to Wrongfully Exclude, and State Autonomy

8. The Right to Wrongfully Exclude, and Objectionable State Character

9. The Right to Exclude Revisited.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 29, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

0-19-199978-4

0-19-889870-3

0-19-889871-1

OCLC:

1419181601